Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A regular checkup once or twice a year with a GP who had the time , the energy , and the resources to advise on preventative medicine as an integral part of the National Health Service , may have protected me from a heart attack . |
| 2 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 3 | On that occasion we lost no time in speeding over to the courts , finding a judge , and obtaining an injunction almost at once . |
| 4 | For the rest of the morning he had no time to think about her . |
| 5 | Once on the island he lost no time getting to the prison , and within the hour was waiting in the ante-chamber to an interview room , listening to the distant , hollow sound of metal ringing on metal , and footsteps echoing morbidly as men exercised and moved about their token business . |
| 6 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 7 | It was only a very light avalanche : this close to the summit it had no time to gather power . |
| 8 | Suddenly , Fabia experienced the same familiar churning of inner agitation which appeared every time that interview grew imminent . |
| 9 | She moved so fast to the door he had no time for even one step . |
| 10 | At a philosophical level he had no time for notions of the social contract or human rights ( he famously described the idea of natural rights as ‘ nonsense upon stilts ’ . ) |
| 11 | On board Viking we lost no time in following the example of our shipmates who were sound asleep , blissfully indifferent to the activities on shore . |
| 12 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |
| 13 | There was a clock on the tower of the Governor 's Palace which overlooked the square ( and a sundial which gave the time in Agra , Tobolsk , Isfahan and Moscow in the mornings and in Lima , Buenos Aires , Pico di Teneriffe , Lisbon , Paris and Rio in the afternoons ) . |
| 14 | Along the way she found the time to set up Ranzau , and in March this year the couple ploughed their capital into beefing it up . |
| 15 | Killum or Killom means ‘ at the springs ’ and in a chalky area the presence of surface water is a boon , unless you lived in a house which flooded every time the springs rose . |
| 16 | A grid of reference wires in front of the rotating map presented the hours , and as the solar image passed each wire it indicated the time as well as any sundial could . |
| 17 | Having risen from Ukrainian coal mines through the party ranks as a tough and brutal Stalinist , once he achieved personal power he wasted no time in opening his mind to the ways of the rest of the world . |