Example sentences of "he [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his busy schedule , he made time to visit the conference ‘ Geordie night ’ — a gathering of north eastern MPs and activists — and was to be found one evening at the Brighton Trade Union and Labour Club with his friend Michael Elliot , a political comedian with whom he toured the coalfields during the 1984-85 pits strike . |
| 2 | Even while he was desperately busy on Soldier 's Tale , he made time to help her by offering to design the costumes , writing to Hanns that he had told her ‘ you will be here to put finishing touches on to them . |
| 3 | The laughter , the irritation , of the rest of the team who were unloading while he wasted time — none of it mattered . |
| 4 | It had been far from the capital week he had come to expect from Cowes , what with Willie winning everything in sight , having to make diplomatic speeches to his own nephew about how jolly it was to lose to him , and then just as he got time to drown his sorrows at the Yacht Club he had to come to Broadstairs . |
| 5 | In all this he found time to address meetings for these and many other bodies , hold weekly classes for teaching the youth of his synagogue post-biblical history and related subjects , write articles for the Jewish press ( he founded an Anglo Jewish Journal called The Jewish Times later to be absorbed into the Canadian Jewish Chronicle ) . |
| 6 | And somewhere in the last six months he found time to contribute some enthusiastic atmospherics to New Order 's World Cup single , ‘ E Is For England ’ . |
| 7 | Others may be surprised that he found time to work on a feature while promoting a top ten hit in ‘ Groovy Train ’ . |
| 8 | Correspondents previously mentioned were independent gentlemen to whom Miller paid due deference and where little deviation detracted from the subject discussed ; whereas with Butcher , another employee , his tone was far less formal and he found time to dwell on his health , the weather and even mentioned his own servant . |
| 9 | Unlike many of the top jockeys , he found time to talk to Kelly without giving her the immediate impression that he wanted to sleep with her , although if his reputation was only half true then he did . |
| 10 | There he walked and fished and took photographs which later , when he found time , he processed himself in a friend 's dark-room . |
| 11 | Even when a cabinet minister he found time to write round for subscriptions for the Birmingham Unionists and to attend their routine meetings . |
| 12 | He found time too to father an illegitimate child , shortly afterwards abandoning both child and mistress for the woman he might well eventually have married , Margot Heinemann . |
| 13 | Apart from his council work , he found time to address with technical skill and lucidity trade problems such as marketing and exporting agricultural produce , the new techniques of refrigeration and of drying milk , food adulteration , and the wartime rationalization of flour and bread movements to prevent price rises . |
| 14 | During these years he found time to study law and in 1873 was called to the Irish bar . |
| 15 | Pushing aside her need to find Grandfather 's friend , unconsciously adopting the philosophy of the Irish that there was always plenty of time , she allowed Feargal to monopolise her — although when he found time to run his farm was anyone 's guess . |
| 16 | And still he found time to heal the sick . |
| 17 | Aristotle also doubted whether there could be time without thinking beings , since he regarded time as not merely succession but ‘ succession in so far as it is numbered ’ , and nothing can be numbered unless there is someone to do the counting . |
| 18 | He beats time [ bat la mesure ] using a scroll or stick [ bâton ] . |
| 19 | What does he need time for ? |
| 20 | He provided time rapidly for the Select Committee on Sittings of the House which concerned curtailing hon. Members ' hours . |
| 21 | When he has time to relax , he manages to put all that energy into enjoying himself . |
| 22 | Now he has time on his hands to reflect on a career which started so promisingly when he made his Worcestershire debut while still at Malvern College in 1982 , but never lived up to those aforementioned expectations simply because of injury . |
| 23 | The wonder is perhaps that he has time to do any writing and research at all after running two companies — Pluto Press ( Australia ) and PR agency Social Change Media — and with partner Stephanie Dowrick , also a writer , bringing up two children . |
| 24 | But he has time to walk up and down the room only five times , telling Felicity what Prue said , before the phone rings again . |
| 25 | But being outside the pressures of life in the city he has time to think , and to formulate his thoughts on all the issues of the day in the form of letters to the editors of the more influential newspapers . |
| 26 | A bottomless dustbin , a plastic oil container and a private selection of empty bottles have already been added to his private junk heap , waiting to be collected one day when he has time . |
| 27 | Now back in his hometown of Swindon he has time to reflect on the months tending wounded and dying Croatians at the frontline of battle in North Bosnia . |
| 28 | But he needs time or money … and there 's no money . |
| 29 | He needs time to switch off . |
| 30 | Where Hornblower 's cough is designed to give him time to avoid embarrassment or to get out of a tight corner , Septimus puts on his spectacles , which in fact he only needs for reading , when he needs time to think of a way out of a difficulty or the chance to seem more confident than he really is . |