Example sentences of "it [vb past] [det] time " in BNC.
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1 | While it declined to say how much money it got this time , its four backers , the Mayfield Fund , Institutional Venture Partners , Menlo Ventures and St Paul Venture Capital , are now into it to the tune of $12.2m total . |
2 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
3 | It seemed that time might stand still forever . |
4 | ’ It seemed that time scales were important to him . |
5 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
6 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
7 | Erm well it happened some time between about two and six |
8 | Apparently it began some time last night . ’ |
9 | Whether this means that life originated just once , or that it originated many times , each origin acquiring a different code , but that one origin gave rise to more successful competitors , we do not know . |
10 | Probably it originated many times by independent ‘ mutation ’ . |
11 | Ms Gordon said the recruitment agencies were enthusiastic about broking as it meant less time was spent pairing applicants with jobs . |
12 | It took little time to decide that her new mama was just like the doll , with her big blue eyes , and her made up face and blonde hair . |
13 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
14 | It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 . |
15 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
16 | Even in a presidency capital like Bombay , it took some time for the station to catch up with the developing pretension of the city . |
17 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
18 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
19 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
20 | It took some time , but after 36 buns and a 40-ounce bottle of whiskey had been used up , the gulls were found to be reacting admirably and appeared to be enjoying the ‘ experiment ’ as much as the engineers . |
21 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
22 | It took some time for the War Office to be persuaded that fugitives from the enemy could usefully serve their adopted country . |
23 | it took some time before it was explained to them that the French pronunciation of GPT sounded just like ‘ J'ai pété ’ which , as all you Europhiles no doubt know , means ‘ I have broken wind . ’ |
24 | It took some time before Willie allowed himself to relax in the water . |
25 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
26 | It took some time for such an admission to emerge . |
27 | The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line . |
28 | Because of this last-minute genesis , it took some time for the Inland Revenue to turn Mr Major 's jottings into a workable form . |
29 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
30 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |