Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room was silent save for the angry swishing sound she made each time she turned the magazine 's pages . |
| 2 | I was quite worried about you , after you fainted that time . " |
| 3 | The Social Secretary thanked Mr and Mrs Preshous for a very informative presentation and all agreed that time had run out all too quickly . |
| 4 | The government of the US wasted little time in funding two secret thermonuclear research projects . |
| 5 | Douglas , disappointed , had of course been prepared for this also , and wasted little time in cursing . |
| 6 | However , with Sarah Bentley making her singles debut for Surrey , the holders wasted little time in establishing a winning 5–1 lead to retain their title . |
| 7 | He wasted little time in finding a replacement , choosing the widowed Mary of Guise . |
| 8 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard . |
| 9 | She wasted little time in starting to eat , her quick brain turning over alternative scenarios as she debated whether to show herself to the Carlisle Flint team , or disappear quietly to her room . |
| 10 | He was waiting for her outside and wasted little time in virtually hustling her outside to where his car was waiting for them . |
| 11 | Kate looked round rather blindly to find her colleagues , and , having located them , wasted little time . |
| 12 | It was wonderful to be so close to him again , to feel no barriers between them , and he wasted little time before possessing her with such quick , hot urgency that she was left behind . |
| 13 | This exile might have been permanent had Swegen not died in February 1014. Æthelred was invited back , and wasted little time in expelling Cnut and his army from their Lincolnshire base . |
| 14 | Once free of these troubles he wasted little time in turning his attention to England . |
| 15 | Her hair looked very red in the bright light from the kitchen , and her ear-rings twinkled each time she moved her head . |
| 16 | Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago . |
| 17 | They met some time in ‘ thirty-eight , I gather . |
| 18 | I have a feeling that an international conference of television executives met some time later , hoping to improve on this . |
| 19 | Observations from the Earth of the east-west motion of small features in the Jovian clouds led some time ago to a sidereal rotation period for the equatorial region of 9h 50m 30.003s , and 9h 55m 40.632s for the rest of Jupiter . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister of Barbados , Erskine Sandiford , agreed this time , however , to co-ordinate efforts to create a single market by 1994 . |
| 21 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 22 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |
| 23 | Kevin tried a few years ago and failed this time … he aims to make history … and if he does we 'll be there … |
| 24 | ‘ Where are we going ? ’ she asked some time later . |
| 25 | Maybe your financial position has changed recently and plans you made some time ago need reviewing . |
| 26 | Intel was the last to join the RISC bandwagon , Slater notes — repeating a comment made some time ago by Intels ' Dave House , that RISC was ‘ the last hope of the have-nots ’ — now it seems Intel is the have-not of the RISC marketplace . |
| 27 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 28 | While it declined to say how much money it got this time , its four backers , the Mayfield Fund , Institutional Venture Partners , Menlo Ventures and St Paul Venture Capital , are now into it to the tune of $12.2m total . |
| 29 | Mercifully , by the third day Nigel got some time on his own and was able to go out and buy a meal . |
| 30 | When similar problems arose some time ago your predecessor Inspector Pinder and PC Shaw from Cabus came to a Parish Council meeting to advise us on what steps could be taken and there was some improvement . |