Example sentences of "he [verb] the time " 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 checked the time — 3 a.m . |
| 3 | He passed the time Dreamwalking . |
| 4 | He passed the time of day with Two Coats the tramp . |
| 5 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |
| 6 | Love C. ’ He appended the time of the best train . |
| 7 | He read The Times , Church and Financial , and the Independent . |
| 8 | He found the time to write about his travels when he was a prisoner-of-war years after his great journey through the Hindu Kush , the Pamirs , Kashgar , Yarkand and the Gobi Desert to reach Beijing in search of trade in 1275 . |
| 9 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 10 | He found the time and energy , however , to write a pamphlet attacking a scheme for Church Union in South India . |
| 11 | In Henry IV , Parts I and II he has the time of his life . |
| 12 | There is no reason why a professor of history , say , should not also manage a family business if he has the time and energy . |
| 13 | He knows that tomorrow he has to tell Potter that he needs the time off again . |
| 14 | He forsaw the time when steam would invade every domain — ’ |
| 15 | To Charles he was an indispensable source of wisdom and experience and he relished the time spent in his company . |
| 16 | Or , if he really wants to worry aloud , he recalls the time not long ago when he woke one morning to find a black man looming over him in his bedroom carrying most of the clothes from wardrobe in one hand and the family carving knife in the other . |
| 17 | He recalls the time when a promised £300,000 windfall from Stiff never materialised , so he had to sell his new house to survive . |
| 18 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Not sure , I must ask her where he does he goes to a Marks where they always have every possible man 's suit that Marks make and and he takes the time to buy two or even three because he does n't get that much time for shopping . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Occasionally he exchanged the time of day . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | I ca n't see how he finds the time , with all his other activities . |
| 25 | ‘ He thought the time had come for me to have a car , and very kindly provided me with one . |
| 26 | Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’ |
| 27 | If Jewish control could not be challenged constitutionally it would have to be done by acts of Steel ; and he saw the time approaching when , like the mayor of Bethlehem , he would have to arm his son against the Jews . |
| 28 | He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last . |
| 29 | When I went to that rodeo with Jerry and I was n't home until after midnight , Harry did n't even ask me why I was so late — and he knew the time because he 'd been down to see if Islay 's foal was better . |
| 30 | He knew the time because they had arranged to meet on the hour but he was a few minutes late and she was waiting . |