Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [art] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 2 | We gave up the written report quite frankly because we found it a waste of time . |
| 3 | Oh , yes , it took me a bit of time to recognise you , but I got there in the end . |
| 4 | I took me no end of time |
| 5 | ‘ Going out to America saved me a lot of time — an English surgeon had told me it would be a year before I kicked a ball again but I was back playing within six months . ’ |
| 6 | She had agreed to have a drink with the deputy head of the English department after work , which gave her a bit of time . |
| 7 | A that time David was going through a period when he would n't fly , which was a pretty smart ploy because it gained you a lot of time between gigs , as you have to travel by some sort of surface transportation . |