Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her expression showed that she no longer had any time for jokes . |
| 2 | In 1904 he sold part of his collection of eighteenth-century English water-colours to ( Sir ) Edward Marsh [ q.v. ] and thereafter devoted much time to his Botticelli studies , from 1905 living mostly in Florence , where he bought and restored an old palazzo , which became the Museo Horne after his death . |
| 3 | IT HARDLY SEEMED ANY TIME AT ALL BEFORE THE DAYS started to get warmer and spring was here again . |
| 4 | The first time I ever spent any time with Jackie was also my baptism into driving around a circuit fast . |
| 5 | As someone who once worked full time for two years in one of the most high-powered urban planning teams ever assembled in this country , I see those four points as virtually certain consequences of the Government 's proposals . |
| 6 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 7 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 8 | He probably spent some time at Wittenberg with Luther . |
| 9 | When he was up and about , he also spent some time in the kitchen , having become what was then called a ‘ health-food fanatic ’ . |
| 10 | She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States . |
| 11 | But because inflation differentials were relatively small during the 1950s and 1960s , it often took some time for marked divergences in competitiveness to emerge . |
| 12 | There , he and his fellow students ‘ often gave more time to books than drawing ’ , and his life became an attractive combination of early-morning reading , architectural work in the day , and evenings playing the violin with his father at festivities in and around Bockhampton . |
| 13 | Dr Jean Robertson , a GP for 26 years , originally had little time for the notion of psychic healing until an experience at the funeral of her nineteen year-old daughter , who died of cancer four years ago . |
| 14 | After 45 minutes they finally emerged from the storm under broken cloud , and then made good time to Rangoon . |
| 15 | Most subjects initially interpreted ‘ before the black-robed judge ’ to be a prepositional phrase meaning ‘ in front of the judge ’ and were surprised by the word ‘ entered ’ and consequently spent longer time on it . |
| 16 | First , though , there is a need to say something more general about Adorno 's position , in the context of the approach outlined in the previous chapter — particularly in light of the fact that Adorno evidently had little time for popular music ! |
| 17 | I believe Vigilant was a better seaboat , but I never served any time on her in adverse conditions to find out . |
| 18 | They never took proper time over it . ’ |
| 19 | She never had much time for me before . ’ |
| 20 | She 'd been a sort of feminist before it became fashionable ; never had much time for all that sisterly stuff , but she was positive she was as good as any man and she 'd prove it … |
| 21 | ‘ I never had much time for him when he was young , but I never guessed he 'd do anything as rotten as this ! ’ |
| 22 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 23 | Well I think we should take another look at what you actually said this time with subtitles for those poor people who are n't telepathic . |