Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , it appears , neither rapacious nor peremptory , no ‘ for kicks ’ , no ‘ wham bam , thank you , mam ! ’ — he tried to make sure both of them enjoyed the time ; and he was fun . |
| 2 | Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end . |
| 3 | They agreed a time and place to meet . |
| 4 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 5 | They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies . |
| 6 | They passed the time chatting as they knitted or mended . |
| 7 | A meeting of Leaders and Trustees was held in the Carleton Cafe the following Friday evening , 18 December — they wasted no time — and after a prolonged discussion the decision was taken to build a new church as soon as possible and certainly within the following five years . |
| 8 | ‘ They wasted no time in getting me up to the theatre , and after making the General promise not to take my arm off I gave a running commentary as the ether took effect . |
| 9 | They wasted no time in coming up with a replacement for another New Zealander , Murray Kidd , who guided them to All Ireland League honours in 1992 . |
| 10 | However , their " day " lengthened to nearly 26 hours , so that when they resurfaced , they underestimated the time they had spent below ground . |
| 11 | Between the tournaments and all that smiling at the cameras , one wondered how they found the time and the energy to do all those things that the popular press said they did . |
| 12 | Abruptly , the all-pervading background noise in the TARDIS altered , and when Ace and Petion dashed back to the console room , they found the time rotor grinding to a halt . |
| 13 | They fixed a time and he turned back to his friends . |
| 14 | They fixed a time . |
| 15 | They fixed a time . |
| 16 | Over a period of two weeks they noted the time she went to bed each night and calculated an average ‘ time late ’ . |
| 17 | They spent the time there swimming and walking , and when the holidays were over they used to return home . |
| 18 | She met John frequently now by arrangement but always they spent the time where they were not likely to be seen . |
| 19 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 20 | They lost no time in petitioning the Home Secretary ‘ complaining that their privileges had been infringed upon by the Charter granted to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and praying for relief ’ . |
| 21 | For instance , there was poor communication with mothers in the weighing room because the nurses were so occupied with the recording of weights that they took no time to explain these to the mothers . |
| 22 | They took no time at all to decide , three of them , Elizabeth Everett , Natalie Deegan and Diane Reeve opted for adventure and a new experience . |
| 23 | Some said they had no listed buildings at risk at all , others that there were so many their hands were full and they had no time to reply . |
| 24 | ‘ They had no time to gather more . |
| 25 | He had to wait until nine o'clock to telephone the garage , and he had been told they had no time that morning and would try to get down in the afternoon . |
| 26 | The person was even at pains to point out while the interview was being conducted that they had no time or interest in politics at all . |
| 27 | They had no time to chatter in the lane . |
| 28 | ‘ They had no time , ’ said Owen bitterly . |
| 29 | Kate Collingwood , writing as tutor-organiser for Essex with a Federation Executive highly committed to voluntary participation , felt that ‘ any of my organising work could be done by voluntary branch members if they had the time . |
| 30 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |