Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between the Hague Convention and the other methods of obtaining evidence abroad provided for in the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and comparable State rules has occupied much judicial time . |
| 2 | By contrast , a ‘ Solarz for President ’ campaign sounds improbable : the congressman has spent much more time in Asia than in Iowa . |
| 3 | It 's does n't matter but Ian has suggested that next time we appoint a treasurer who has the account |
| 4 | Sometimes they 'd fuck right away , or sometimes they 'd wait till they were about to leave , but they 'd always do it on the sheet , the same sheet he 'd brought that first time , as if , without it , some spell might be broken and everything would fall apart . |
| 5 | She could have done that any time these past four years . |
| 6 | Why could n't I have had that last time ! |
| 7 | Now he lied to the housing department about having lived all that time with an old aunt , since dead , and got a friend who kept a garage in the dead woman 's street to swear to having seen him there daily . |
| 8 | She smiled , suddenly the woman he had met that first time , laughing and self-confident , all depths , all subtleties gone from her . |
| 9 | This was , she knew , thinking back to what the astrologer had said all that time ago in London , the blaze that had been ignited and over which she had no control . |
| 10 | In that we 've , if we 're talking division we 've got two full time centres obviously . |
| 11 | and we 've got two full time offices |
| 12 | Yeah Oh we 've got more this time |
| 13 | at least you 've got some free time . |
| 14 | When I 've got some more time I 'm going to offer my services again . |
| 15 | This study found that 73% of lone mothers depended on income support at the time of the survey , and of these only 28% had had regular full time employment before becoming a lone parent . |
| 16 | You 've had that all time though Ju , ai n't you ? |
| 17 | I 've spent all this time trying to make up my mind . |
| 18 | So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ? |
| 19 | They 've lasted all this time . |
| 20 | ‘ It does n't sound as if she 's got much spare time . ’ |
| 21 | And it 's taken all this time , it 's gone to court and all the rest of it , and they have n't got a case . |
| 22 | And it 's taken all this time to come round . |
| 23 | We have wasted all this time getting here . |
| 24 | ‘ And we have wasted all this time resisting provocation , which was just what they wanted . |