Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had a brilliant technical mind but found little time for people . |
| 32 | The police have been up several times , you know that attache case I said the dustman found that time ? |
| 33 | She used that time wisely in assembling a cast of Roy 's friends including Robbie Robertson , Don Was , Jeff Lynne and K D Lang to complete unfinished tracks from the sessions for his last album , Mystery Girl . |
| 34 | He decided that although the Prime Mover had granted his wish , it was up to him how he used that time ; but with his badly broken body there was little he could do . |
| 35 | The motorcyclist beat this time by five minutes , but conditions were unusual ; many institutions such as the University and the Art College remained closed for a second day of holiday , which meant traffic was unusually light . |
| 36 | Malta were unfortunate to lose 2-1 to Italy last December , but , with three defenders suspended this time , they could not repeat that performance . |
| 37 | The sight of the two customers that entered this time stayed her hand holding the small brass scoop that was about to transfer a minute amount of coconut chips to the scale . |
| 38 | It is not surprising that one railway executive of the period described this time as one of ‘ calamitous overbuilding ’ in Canadian railways . |
| 39 | He shouted this time , and tugged harder . |
| 40 | I could do with you on my permanent staff — but I think that these articles will hit home , cause a stir , such a stir as Henry Mayhew created some time ago when he , too , wrote of the cabined and confined lives of the capital 's poor . |
| 41 | On April 27th Michael Heseltine , the industry minister , formally opened another state-of-the-art car factory — built this time by Honda in Swindon . |
| 42 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 43 | What is arguably the most significant event to affect the British landscape occurred some time before 4000 BC . |
| 44 | So the mischief occurred some time between then and five-fifteen . ’ |
| 45 | On 22 May 1939 , Joyce appeared at Westminster Police Court , charged this time with assault and offences against the Public Order Act . |
| 46 | The two tier system mentioned some time ago was needed now and a greater standard of excellence was essential in practical embalming . |
| 47 | And what title has British Coal used this time ? |
| 48 | Those ‘ best bits ’ do not include the unions , excluded this time to their disgust . |
| 49 | The report shows that the committee devoted some time to analysing a helpful report from the Health Education Authority , ’ Beating the Ban ’ , which was published in 1990 . |
| 50 | They devoted much time to the investigation and publication of wage rates ( A. L. Bowley was recruited for this purpose ) and investigation of labour conditions , including those in the sweated trades . |
| 51 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 52 | In 1904 he sold part of his collection of eighteenth-century English water-colours to ( Sir ) Edward Marsh [ q.v. ] and thereafter devoted much time to his Botticelli studies , from 1905 living mostly in Florence , where he bought and restored an old palazzo , which became the Museo Horne after his death . |
| 53 | He was chairman of the finance committee of the royal jubilee exhibition in Manchester in 1887 , a JP for the city of Manchester and the county of Lancashire for over thirty years , and with his wife ( the daughter of William Crippin of Manchester ) devoted much time to philanthropic and charitable undertakings . |
| 54 | Over the next few years , it is true , both the Eden and Macmillan governments devoted much time and energy to schemes for partial demilitarization , disengagement , or confidence-building measures in the heart of Europe , schemes which were sometimes linked to the question of German reunification . |
| 55 | But the most ingenious theory is from Bishop Auckland historian John Land , who devoted much time to the Eden Theatre 's history and particularly its links with Stan Laurel . |
| 56 | Instead Mr Clinton devoted much time to a nightmare scenario of an America in the year 2,000 , struggling under huge interest payments on an escalating government debt . |
| 57 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 58 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 59 | ‘ I ‘ ar n't got much time . |
| 60 | Neither the captive nor her would-be liberator wasted much time complaining : these were the rules of the game , and the two of them could only be patient . |