Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] the time " in BNC.

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1 A minute later I looked at my watch ad noted the time .
2 If its home clock said the time was 12.00 a.m. but the sun at the release site indicated 6.00 a.m. the pigeon would infer it had been moved one quarter of the way round the world to the west .
3 The clock in the hotel foyer showed the time as nine-fifteen as she pushed through the doors and walked through the patio .
4 Illuminated digits on the clock alarm indicated the time 4.02 .
5 In the second experiment , again , it was found that as the number of digits in the memory set increased the time which the brain required before making a correct response increased almost linearly .
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