Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He checked the time of arrival on a big gold bracelet watch , and there were handsome cuff-links with a shamrock in tiny emeralds in each shirt-sleeve . |
| 2 | He passed the time of day with Two Coats the tramp . |
| 3 | He wasted no time on regrets . |
| 4 | Having risen from Ukrainian coal mines through the party ranks as a tough and brutal Stalinist , once he achieved personal power he wasted no time in opening his mind to the ways of the rest of the world . |
| 5 | His thoughts often centred on the foot of the horse , and he wasted no time in his introductory lecture before remarking on the correlation of structure and function that was exhibited by the frog of the foot . |
| 6 | Then brother Jack strolled in and he wasted no time in chatting them up . |
| 7 | He wasted no time in looking round and it was only when he was backing the van to drive away that his face could be seen . |
| 8 | Certainly he wasted no time in calling up his reserves . |
| 9 | On returning to Vietnam , he wasted no time in spreading his knowledge , and when the Japanese invaded , he set up a guerrilla resistance force , the Viet Cong , to fight the invaders . |
| 10 | Love C. ’ He appended the time of the best train . |
| 11 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 12 | He has no time for inefficiency , and he reserves a particular scorn for the manner in which the medical profession organises itself . |
| 13 | He has no time for wafflers . ’ |
| 14 | He has no time for players who are not totally honest with him or with their approach to the game . |
| 15 | He has no time for the factory-made products of China , Pakistan or Morocco . |
| 16 | He has no time for interfering adults , but I was not to be daunted ; I stuck to him until I saw for myself that he had no methods and did not teach , or rather , did not impose . |
| 17 | He has no time for fools . |
| 18 | He has no time for the fair-weather aid groups , who will only go to Romania in the summer and is annoyed by those who deliver basic supplies , take a few pictures and never return . |
| 19 | He has no time for a honeymoon period , of course , and he will not have the dramatic effect on mood and gates which Kevin Keegan managed at Newcastle . |
| 20 | In Henry IV , Parts I and II he has the time of his life . |
| 21 | When the male wasp spies it , he wastes no time in the attempt to mate with what he clearly takes to be a female of his own kind . |
| 22 | ‘ It will also be interesting to see where he gets the time from too , because there 's his solo album release , our anthology , and then in September Mick , Stevie ( Nicks ) , Chris , myself and Billy start a new Fleetwood Mac album , which marks the end of Christine 's ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 23 | I can remember one morning around this time bringing Lord Darlington coffee in the breakfast room , and his saying to me as he folded The Times with some disgust : ‘ Frenchmen . |
| 24 | Occasionally he exchanged the time of day . |
| 25 | So Jane 's tenant , Alan , was an immigrant from the Home Counties , but like Les Nouveaux ( who were locals , though originally non-horsey ) he lost no time in countryfying himself . |
| 26 | He lost no time in becoming familiar with each member of the household , treating each one differently . |
| 27 | He lost no time in stamping his mark on the School : in his first report to the Governors he noted that |
| 28 | So , nine months ago , when he heard that a consortium was planning to launch Classic FM — Britain 's first radio station — he lost no time in trying to do business with him . |
| 29 | ‘ When you would not dine with me on Tuesday , I drove that evening to my parents in Plzeň , but had I known you would sound so pleased to hear me , I would have driven back sooner than last night , ’ he lost no time in taking advantage . |
| 30 | He 's a very aggressive batsman , but he finds the time to be a great encourager of his partners , and Phil Bainbridge is convinced that he 's never run faster than when they were in together against Lancashire . ’ |