Example sentences of "he [vb past] [art] 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 | Having risen from Ukrainian coal mines through the party ranks as a tough and brutal Stalinist , once he achieved personal power he wasted no time in opening his mind to the ways of the rest of the world . |
| 6 | His thoughts often centred on the foot of the horse , and he wasted no time in his introductory lecture before remarking on the correlation of structure and function that was exhibited by the frog of the foot . |
| 7 | Then brother Jack strolled in and he wasted no time in chatting them up . |
| 8 | He wasted no time targeting Wegerle as the man to make the most from former England winger Chris Waddle 's brilliant prompting . |
| 9 | He wasted no time ; his very first question was about Cecil King . |
| 10 | He wasted no time on regrets . |
| 11 | He wasted no time in looking round and it was only when he was backing the van to drive away that his face could be seen . |
| 12 | Certainly he wasted no time in calling up his reserves . |
| 13 | On returning to Vietnam , he wasted no time in spreading his knowledge , and when the Japanese invaded , he set up a guerrilla resistance force , the Viet Cong , to fight the invaders . |
| 14 | In his final , however , he wasted no time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Love C. ’ He appended the time of the best train . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He found the time and energy , however , to write a pamphlet attacking a scheme for Church Union in South India . |
| 20 | He forsaw the time when steam would invade every domain — ’ |
| 21 | To Charles he was an indispensable source of wisdom and experience and he relished the time spent in his company . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Occasionally he exchanged the time of day . |
| 24 | So Jane 's tenant , Alan , was an immigrant from the Home Counties , but like Les Nouveaux ( who were locals , though originally non-horsey ) he lost no time in countryfying himself . |
| 25 | He lost no time in becoming familiar with each member of the household , treating each one differently . |
| 26 | Once on the island he lost no time getting to the prison , and within the hour was waiting in the ante-chamber to an interview room , listening to the distant , hollow sound of metal ringing on metal , and footsteps echoing morbidly as men exercised and moved about their token business . |
| 27 | He lost no time : his report was completed by the end of the month , and early in April they met to consider the Report and its Recommendation . |
| 28 | He lost no time in stamping his mark on the School : in his first report to the Governors he noted that |
| 29 | Fortunately he lost no time . |
| 30 | So , nine months ago , when he heard that a consortium was planning to launch Classic FM — Britain 's first radio station — he lost no time in trying to do business with him . |