Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general opinion seems to be that since the bastard 's decided to stop shooting people , he can remain anonymous , stay at large , enjoy life and freedom , and laugh up his sleeve at an incompetent police force until he decides the time has come for a little more high-velocity fun . ’ |
| 2 | At least he would have hot water that night when he returned home — if he had the time to return home . |
| 3 | There is no reason why a professor of history , say , should not also manage a family business if he has the time and energy . |
| 4 | And Mary , he says cos he says every time I come in here |
| 5 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 6 | Henry told Donald some of this , as he did every time he and Donald used the pub , and Donald nodded and smiled and said : ‘ Really ! |
| 7 | As he did every time Henry told him these things . |
| 8 | He had booked for the full residential weekend , as he did every time one was held . |
| 9 | For cooking and drinking all the coolies had to use brackish water from the mosquito-infested streams that flowed sluggishly through the plantation , and Hoc wondered , as he did every time he found himself shivering , whether he too might have contracted the dreaded fever . |
| 10 | Nathaniel Sherman peered at his watch , his face puckering in concentration as he calculated the time necessary to allow the buffalo to move into the most favourable range . |