Example sentences of "time [vb past] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telephone Management Systems customer care director Anne Nunn also speaks for many suppliers when she talks about the imbalance between the knowledge required of hotel staff and the time devoted to training them . |
| 2 | Their lifestyle contains all the ingredients that for us make up ‘ the good life ’ — plenty of time devoted to playing , socialising , and making love . |
| 3 | The time consumed in getting it all in . |
| 4 | When the time came for returning the spoon , he found that part of the soft horn bowl had worn away . |
| 5 | In fact the Welfs could not get their letters through Philip 's lines and Philip was much stronger than Otto militarily and as time wore on attracting more of the princes to his cause . |
| 6 | They fielded a ten-man defence which for some time looked like achieving the 0–0 draw they desired . |
| 7 | Our unconscious acknowledgement of this at the time lay in taking up as little space as possible , not being a nuisance . |
| 8 | Colleagues , the time gained by having only one and recruitment and on negotiations rather at least two could be much better utilized than the certain , the day to day needs of membership . |