Example sentences of "was [indef pn] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was plenty of time before Curtain Up at 8 o'clock , half the cast had gone out and backstage had a drowsy air about it . |
| 2 | Since attendance at everything was voluntary there was plenty of time to view the high-tech exhibition and to mingle and chat in any of the dozens of coffee shops on the site . |
| 3 | But there was plenty of time for fear . |
| 4 | There was plenty of time for Donald to think things over . |
| 5 | There was plenty of time for questions . |
| 6 | He had quite a long way to walk to the bridge , but there was plenty of time ; he had taken the trouble to find out the train times and he had worked out at what time the train would arrive at the bridge — about 9pm — so he enjoyed his walk . |
| 7 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |
| 8 | But there was plenty of time , and they had to wait at the other end of the tunnel . |
| 9 | There was plenty of time . |
| 10 | So I thought that there was plenty of time as this is my first day off from work . |
| 11 | Still , there was plenty of time to sort that out . |
| 12 | I had about four hours to spend looking around Ipswich which was plenty of time as Ipswich is quite a small town . |
| 13 | There was plenty of time . |
| 14 | So there was plenty of time to leave the box and promenade around . |
| 15 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
| 16 | The Australian professional took 7–103 , bringing his tally of league wickets to 35 and , although the home side made 187–8 , there was plenty of time for the Middlesbrough batsmen to knock off the runs . |
| 17 | There was lots of time before he was due to meet Amaranth Wilikins for lunch at the Black Chapati , ‘ where English eccentricity adopts oriental exoticism to produce something special ’ , or so Jonathan Meades in The Times had said . |