Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has since returned 11 times to continue her research on the long-term environmental effects of the US/Vietnam war , and last year published the book The regreening of Vietnam ( The Women 's Press , £17.95hb ) . |
| 2 | The surface of the etch-resist ink might wash off in the developer but a layer of ink can still be left on the board , because the UV light has not had enough time to penetrate all the way through the resist . |
| 3 | If Mr Rocard runs into new difficulties , he can always push important bills through with the swift and effective parliamentary guillotine — an arguably undemocratic device he has already used 11 times over the past three years . |
| 4 | Annabel has already telephoned three times , but I 've asked her not to call again , in case she disturbs a treatment . |
| 5 | But the official version of events has already changed several times . |
| 6 | Michael has already spent considerable time in Barcelona , but despite those commitments the all important cross country course at Bramham Park is well on the way to completion thanks to the endeavours of George Podmore and his team . |
| 7 | Politics has also meant little time for hobbies like reading , music , badminton and cricket . |
| 8 | This has substantially reduced queuing times and processing costs . |
| 9 | Firstly , we formed our Development Group that has now met five times , and has quickly welded into a good team . |
| 10 | Financing Transport Infrastructure : This working party has now met several times and has established the key issues it wishes to address in its final report . |
| 11 | ‘ I was shocked when Bristol City released me because I thought that I was doing well , ’ said Vernon , who has now scored four times in three games for Bath but has not yet started a game . |
| 12 | The signalman in his isolated box tells the narrator of an apparition he has now seen three times . |
| 13 | Mighty Mogul only broke his duck at Towcester in January , but has not stopped improving and has now won five times from five starts following a close-season transfer from Jenny Pitman 's yard . |
| 14 | Now what happens when he has n't done any time at all and time is just starting off . |
| 15 | He has n't got much time left to come up with a challenge for 1992 . |
| 16 | she has n't got enough time |
| 17 | If he has n't got three times more than anybody else he 'll scre |
| 18 | Before leaving this particular mystery , we should repeat that there is good proof that the direction of the Earth 's magnetic field has indeed flipped many times during our planet 's lifetime . |
| 19 | Scotland has never had much time for earthquakes : the national football team already has a monopoly on disasters . |
| 20 | Rose-Marie glided up in her clinging black lunch frock , raised her finger and said , as she 'd already said several times that day , ‘ Catreeona , this is your last warning . ’ |
| 21 | The adult female lays large clusters of eggs … ( shown here magnified 15 times ) … sometimes wrapping them in bands around twigs . |
| 22 | But we felt better organised this time and again we felt very pleased with it as still only our second attempt . |
| 23 | Throughout the entire journey we saw perhaps six tiny fishing villages and one ugly landslide scar whose remarkable story we had all heard various times in Bau-Bau . |
| 24 | Water from the Arghuri brook , thought Miss Logan ; or perhaps that sourish milk which they had already received many times on their travels from obliging shepherds . |
| 25 | The gelding had already struck three times out of four in novice events , two at Kempton , before going off 5/2 favourite for the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 26 | He had already spent much time on the hotel telephone to Scotland Yard . |
| 27 | By 9.15 ( toast , corn flakes , coffee ) the telephone had already rung five times . |
| 28 | the chance would be substantially reduced if the marriage had already lasted some time and there were children . |
| 29 | He had not had much time or energy to expend on such matters , and was quite happy to cover familiar , or at least already prepared , ground . |
| 30 | In September 1989 Chadli announced the postponement of local elections , originally scheduled for December , following complaints from the opposition parties that they had not had enough time to prepare for them . |