Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 2 | They began to spend less time together . |
| 3 | They started fighting last time Star Eye were here . ’ |
| 4 | They had made good time . |
| 5 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 6 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 7 | IN 1963 ABC TV published the findings of an experiment they had conducted some time earlier into the perception thresholds of children watching Television . |
| 8 | Thomas grunted that they had wasted enough time and must continue on their journey . |
| 9 | They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment . |
| 10 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 11 | Not long ago some highly placed career men resigned their jobs because , they said , they wanted to spend more time with their families . |