Example sentences of "and [vb past] the time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyhow , she set to and found the time to make one for me , even though she had such a large family to care for . |
| 2 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 3 | He stayed in Paris for a week , and spent the time looking at paintings and collecting souvenirs — a stone from the Bastille , for example ; yet on his arrival in Orleans he met officers and members of Royalist clubs . |
| 4 | A few moments later he shivered again , sneezed and decided the time had come to return to his mates and forget it . |
| 5 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
| 6 | These giant machines , including a nine-feeder installed in 1847 , were considerable feats of engineering and enabled The Times to have an enormous circulation by 1850 , reducing its rivals to pygmies . |
| 7 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |