Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It passed the time , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 2 | It passed the time . |
| 3 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 4 | It passed the time . |
| 5 | And er until it became the time when the thing got smaller and smaller and we finally had to do away with that place . |
| 6 | It seemed no time at all until the last model , wearing a mauve duchesse evening dress called ‘ Tour d'Eiffel ’ , had swished back through the gold curtain and Paul de Levantiére was standing to acknowledge the enthusiastic applause . |
| 7 | The hours flew by and it seemed no time at all until she was back on the train , reliving every moment as she travelled home . |
| 8 | It seemed no time at all before the meeting was over . |
| 9 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 10 | It happened every time . |
| 11 | A grid of reference wires in front of the rotating map presented the hours , and as the solar image passed each wire it indicated the time as well as any sundial could . |
| 12 | For example , when Rome 's first sundial was brought to the city from Sicily in 263 BC , during the first Punic war , and was erected in the Forum it was inaccurate because it indicated the time appropriate to the place whence it came which was more than four degrees to the south . |
| 13 | When the Belgian nuclear industry decided to allow reporters into its new reactors at Doel near Antwerp , it followed the time honoured tradition of entertaining the thirsty hacks on a boat trip up the river Schelde . |
| 14 | It worked every time . |
| 15 | It took no time at all ; ten seconds to have it ready , scope in place , the stock up to his shoulder . |
| 16 | Once we got into the swing of things , it took no time at all . ’ |
| 17 | It was only a very light avalanche : this close to the summit it had no time to gather power . |
| 18 | It had a pre-defined space — Waimea Bay — but it left the time open . |