Example sentences of "he [vb past] 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 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He found the time and energy , however , to write a pamphlet attacking a scheme for Church Union in South India . |
| 10 | He forsaw the time when steam would invade every domain — ’ |
| 11 | To Charles he was an indispensable source of wisdom and experience and he relished the time spent in his company . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Occasionally he exchanged the time of day . |
| 14 | ‘ He thought the time had come for me to have a car , and very kindly provided me with one . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He knew the time because they had arranged to meet on the hour but he was a few minutes late and she was waiting . |
| 20 | He chose the time carefully , lurked and caught Dersingham as he was coming from the stable yard after having driven himself out . |
| 21 | Then , just over two years later , John announced at the AGM ( which we use as an opportunity to set spiritual and practical goals for the year to come ) that he felt the time had come for church number three . |
| 22 | Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria . |
| 23 | He remembered the time because it was the last fare he carried before taking a tea-break . |
| 24 | His comedy went into those Welsh and newly minted theatrical stories at Oxford where he had the time of his life . |
| 25 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 26 | At least he would have hot water that night when he returned home — if he had the time to return home . |
| 27 | He returned to England in mid-September but then , to add to his physical woes , he suffered an attack of arthritis : it required massage and he resented the time he had to spend travelling to and from the masseur . |
| 28 | Reiterating the ANC 's willingness to negotiate with the South African government , he said the time was not right for the ANC to abandon violence : ‘ The struggle inside South Africa and outside South Africa must continue . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Clarke 's remarks followed a call by John Major for a public campaign against lawlessness in which he said the time had come to ‘ understand a little less and condemn a little more ’ . |
| 30 | He suggested the time of day and the season of the year when a painter of taste would be most satisfied by the sun 's position , the colours and the shadows . |