Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | To use such language under Cromwell 's government was to court persecution , and Taylor spent some time in the Tower of London as a result . |
| 2 | She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time . |
| 3 | The rabbits in front went fast and Hazel had little time to sniff about as he followed . |
| 4 | And Clinton spent more time than many previous Presidential candidates courting the Irish vote . |
| 5 | Medicine was riddled with superstition and ignorance and Hahnemann had little time for blood-letting , either by venesection or the application of leeches ; the violent purges with emetics and enemas , aimed at ridding the body of the disease-producing influences ; and the host of concoctions of various substances , many of which , such as arsenic or mercury , were highly toxic . |
| 6 | The growing need for a clear dividing-line of this sort was often explicitly mentioned in eighteenth-century treaties between France and her eastern and north-eastern neighbours , while the detailed work of rectification and tidying-up absorbed much time and energy in the French foreign ministry : in 1734 , as part of the frontier settlement at the end of the war of the Polish Succession , a premier commis des limites was appointed to handle the complex legal and other details involved . |
| 7 | If only she and Michael had more time together , time for her feelings to rise close enough to the surface for her to be sure of what they were . |
| 8 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |