Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 I should try it myself if only I had the time . ’
2 Indeed , they would do so , if only they had the time or resources or if the entire teaching staff could agree to abandon lectures simultaneously .
3 It 's just we got no time , as you sit down to work they pin something on you .
4 Nevertheless he had no time to nurse his injury as he was pitched once again into the struggle to recruit more men and to retain the independence of his unit .
5 She met John frequently now by arrangement but always they spent the time where they were not likely to be seen .
6 Fortunately she had no time to find the answer , as Mr Pumblechook was calling for a hot rum to remove the taste of the medicine .
7 And then she recalled the time when she 'd just started her training , and one of her friends had fallen madly in love with a houseman , a rather conceited young man named Stewart .
8 And then there came a time when he felt a pride in the deed , in the courage , the audacity , the resolution which had made it possible .
9 Fortunately he lost no time .
10 Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria .
11 They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies .
12 Occasionally he exchanged the time of day .
13 Certainly he wasted no time in calling up his reserves .
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