Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 2 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 3 | It was only after he went into hospital that I started spending much time with him , because we knew his illness would run a rapid course . |
| 4 | Not that she 'd had much time to explore it , of course . |
| 5 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 6 | Thomas grunted that they had wasted enough time and must continue on their journey . |
| 7 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 8 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 9 | One only wishes that he had spent more time gaining a perspective outside America . |
| 10 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 11 | He told Mr Major he will leave once the Maastricht Treaty is ratified by Parliament , adding that he wanted to spend more time with his family and pursue his interests in the art world . |
| 12 | He explained his resignation on the grounds that he wanted to spend more time preparing his candidacy for forthcoming presidential elections . |