Example sentences of "they [vb past] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | " They got time , " Dean said . |
| 2 | so they wasted time by changing the guard , and I had all the time in the world to destroy the documents . |
| 3 | Such a development required a strong defence , and the point to which they referred time and time again was that ‘ modern conditions ’ made it imperative that education be structured into a coherent national system , with special attention being paid to working-class youth , not merely to trade classes for apprentices , but to the mass of young workers . |
| 4 | They booked time in several prestigious London studios and enlisted the help of producer Chris Allison , with whom they had first worked six months previously on ‘ My Favourite Dress ’ , but the recording began on a sour note and remained agitated throughout . |
| 5 | They spent time arriving at a decision on the correct software . |
| 6 | They spent time in Luxembourg , did you know ? |
| 7 | He ruled out further help for the legalized opposition parties , saying that they needed time to win supporters , and that was why they had fared badly in the April elections . |
| 8 | ‘ When women are young , their careers and pension rights would be damaged if they took time off for their children , so grandmothers must help . |
| 9 | The ‘ patchwork pieces ’ could never be economically viable because they took time to cut , arrange and bag , yet were never sold for more than a few pence . |
| 10 | , of course , was a chapel man and er I think they saw , or some of them saw him er a in him a way round , out of things , and , of course , he did deals with the collieries to get people back to work , and whilst families had enjoyed six months in the gardens and doing all sorts of strange things , erm the men mainly wanted to get back to work , because they saw time running out . |
| 11 | Oh , yes , yes , but there there was certainly a time when , er universities , schools and even business companies , thought that it was part of their erm , their way of supporting society in general , that they gave time to go out and give talks . |
| 12 | Maybe they had time alone once a week . |
| 13 | The people had never heard preaching like this before , and so they embraced the teaching before they had time to become used to it and ‘ Gospel-hardened ’ as had happened to the people of Bridgnorth . |
| 14 | History does not record what the members of these committees thought about it , or whether they had time to read their papers . |
| 15 | But the practical necessities of treating patients remained , so the majority of physicians continued to use as many of the available remedies as they thought necessary , relying on their personal experience , the opinions of colleagues , and the reports of such trials as they had time to study . |
| 16 | Before they had time to say a word , she had rushed across the room , enveloped Dimity in a bear-hug and kissed her soundly on each cheek . |
| 17 | First he attacked the tents of that Moorish Queen the Negress , who lay nearest to the city ; and this onset was so sudden , that they killed full a hundred and fifty Moors before they had time to take arms or go to horse . |
| 18 | When , with colleagues in the Department of Social Administration , I interviewed members of the divorcing population , they argued passionately that divorce was too easy ( or too difficult ) ; that everything was rushed through before they had time to think ( or that it dragged on interminably ) ; and that divorce should be morally neutral ( or that there should be an inquest in which every detail of their spouse 's despicable conduct was exposed to public view ) . |
| 19 | Before they had time to react , the car mounted the kerb and smashed into them . |
| 20 | They had time to assess the composition and probable loyalties of the force gathered there in the riverside haugh next morning , before the Earl Patrick would see them . |
| 21 | And then he added , ‘ I was talking to one of Big Joe 's bouncers and it was his opinion that she got wind of what was to happen , before they had time to give her a dose , likely . |
| 22 | They booked into a guesthouse on the far side of Warminster , and they had time to get into the High Street before the shops closed to buy Erlich a pair of wellington boots , and a rainproof coat that was n't so City , and a hat . |
| 23 | They had time for their economic activities and were free to choose the form of payment for their other work . |
| 24 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 25 | If they had time to have had a look er , if someone could , could take the part of Maria . |
| 26 | On top of that there could be time spent tutoring individual pupils with special needs before they had time to think of preparation for the next day . |
| 27 | And he 's gunning for revenge after the 2–2 draw at Windsor last year , which dented the hopes of Northern Ireland before they had time to begin . |
| 28 | Well , as kind as they had time to be . |
| 29 | After hearing two days of legal argument at the Court of Session on whether relatives could sue for damage caused to a foetus , the judges said they wanted time to prepare a ruling . |
| 30 | Faced with these immediate problems , few of them had time to reflect that such an exercise might logically be based on proper cost research . |