Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general intention in each case was not to screen the train completely , but to ensure that trains did not suddenly come into view without warning , for that would have given no time for a rider or driver to control the horse , which might otherwise bold or unseat its rider . |
| 2 | So with his son 's reputation now unequivocally established Leopold may have regarded the time as propitious to secure a position for Mozart at the Viennese court . |
| 3 | If the 1930 agreement had taken effect fully , there could never have come a time when the freehold to the remainder of No. 263–265 would be left without a road frontage . |
| 4 | But then she would have had no time for taking walks . |
| 5 | ‘ If it had n't gone through this time , I would have had no time left in my life to enter the ministry I so dearly want to join . |
| 6 | We should have had a time , we 'd of had to go home ! |
| 7 | However , an explicit consideration of the broader themes of education management as such is a luxury which fewer people will have had the time , or perhaps the inclination , to undertake . |
| 8 | ‘ I tell you this , Mr Millet , two or three years ago I would n't have had the time to sit down and chatter about a chap I have n't seen for more than a year . |
| 9 | The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them . |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't have thought The Times was Clasper 's favourite paper , exactly , ’ he muttered to his mate . |
| 11 | Colleagues , you 'll have noted the time of the day . |
| 12 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 13 | Some will come directly from school , some will have spent a time in business and will be wishing to improve their qualifications . |
| 14 | He considered , now , that he should have spent the time he had wasted on all that fiction in working on his great book on Samuel Taylor Coleridge instead . |
| 15 | If Yuri Rudakov , undressing in the front bedroom of their bungalow , had not been so tired , he would have taken the time to admire the new nightdress that his wife wore as she sat against the pillows and turned the pages of a picture magazine . |
| 16 | They will all have read The Times , the Morning Post . |
| 17 | have n't , Leicester never do well when they 're at , if they go away , if they play away , if they go right down South or if they go right up North they 'll get beaten every time |