Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politics has also meant little time for hobbies like reading , music , badminton and cricket . |
| 2 | Scotland has never had much time for earthquakes : the national football team already has a monopoly on disasters . |
| 3 | I 've had two or three of them buggers but I think I 'd better go this time as I ca n't get no more . |
| 4 | One student looking still had some time to go before his grant aid ended . |
| 5 | This morning 's episode at the flat had shaken her up quite a bit , and she needed desperately to have some time to herself in quiet surroundings . |
| 6 | But we felt better organised this time and again we felt very pleased with it as still only our second attempt . |
| 7 | With a six-inch reach advantage and making better use this time of his wicked left jab , Eubank was hoping to become the first to stop Gimenez in 45 fights . |
| 8 | I think that some people may not realise fully too is that in order to make a decision you have to be full informed , and teachers are very busy people and a teacher really is spending nearly every moment of his day either teaching or preparing to teach , and it 's impossible , therefore , to establish in a school or a community college the faculty committee structure that one might have in a university , where people do probably spend some time informing themselves before debate . |
| 9 | In this way , many possible locations can be eliminated immediately leaving more time for the planning group to concentrate on the details which will determine exactly which site is the best one . |
| 10 | He had already spent much time on the hotel telephone to Scotland Yard . |
| 11 | the chance would be substantially reduced if the marriage had already lasted some time and there were children . |
| 12 | I 'm in the Flying Fox and I 've just spent some time hovering at just a thousand feet over Bicester and the town centre looking good there . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've already promised this time I 'll listen . ’ |
| 14 | In Angola and Mozambique , there are strange creatures called ‘ Marxist-Leninist States ’ when Marx and Lenin had both spent much time denouncing the State as intrinsically oppressive , but the media mean no more by this phrase than radical nationalists . |
| 15 | Ace had actually understood some time ago , but if there was one lesson that she would take away gladly from her time with the Doctor , it was that it was better to have people underestimate your abilities than overestimate them . |
| 16 | There was a loud echo in the grounds of Wyvis Hall , Mary 's scream ringing back from off the wood and walls and starry waters , and Rufus , a town dweller who had never spent much time in the countryside , expected alarmed or annoyed people to arrive or the disconnected phone to start shrilling with complaints . |
| 17 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 18 | Yet , because of other commitments , I have arguably spent less time than ever with my fish . |
| 19 | I have never had much time for the more esoteric confections you find all over the place . |
| 20 | Since that day I have never spent much time at the green table and , once I got out into the world of journalism , worked hard at it . |
| 21 | She 's certainly had some time to kill , while awaiting her big moment . |