Example sentences of "[vb past] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |
| 2 | I had forgotten to bring anything to read with me , so I passed the time by staring thoughtfully at the emptiness around me , sipping a glass of water and making up Scandinavian riddles — |
| 3 | Mcduff passed the time writing letters . |
| 4 | ‘ It passed the time , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 5 | He knew most of the men who used the line and passed the time of day with them . |
| 6 | He passed the time Dreamwalking . |
| 7 | They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies . |
| 8 | It passed the time . |
| 9 | With Mr Boyd ministering , and Lady Errol attending to her children , Boswell and Johnson passed the time — it will have been close to , or even after , seven o'clock by now — chatting quietly , admiring the sea view , inspecting the pictures , including a portrait of Lord Errol by their ‘ amiable and elegant friend ’ , of whom Johnson observed , concluding some complimentary remarks , ‘ Sir Joshua Reynolds is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel , you would find the most difficulty how to abuse . ’ |
| 10 | They passed the time chatting as they knitted or mended . |
| 11 | The rest of the staff passed the time each in his own way . |
| 12 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 13 | It passed the time . |
| 14 | He passed the time of day with Two Coats the tramp . |
| 15 | Once you shared the time . |
| 16 | ‘ I just i n't 'ad the time . ’ |
| 17 | Lewis , a metre behind , equalled the old world record of 9.93 seconds but could not even console himself with a new American best for he only equalled the time of Calvin Smith . |
| 18 | Love C. ’ He appended the time of the best train . |
| 19 | Then suddenly , as she started to focus the digits and she read the time , her feeling of shyness rapidly vanished , and she exclaimed in astonishment , ‘ It 's nearly midnight ! ’ she had never , ever known an evening go so quickly , and at once she was on her feet , ‘ I had no idea … ’ she attempted to apologise if she had overstayed her welcome . |
| 20 | as if a diary redeemed the time |
| 21 | And er until it became the time when the thing got smaller and smaller and we finally had to do away with that place . |
| 22 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 23 | She was walking home near Colbayns School when a man approached her and asked the time . |
| 24 | Any of youse cats got the time ? ’ |
| 25 | I do n't know how I got the time to play . |
| 26 | She was beginning to wonder if she 'd misread it — got the time all wrong . |
| 27 | He took it home last night I w I got it going I got the time on it but I |
| 28 | Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end . |
| 29 | No we , we walked and I , I got the time wrong did n't we ? |
| 30 | And then she can pick it up when she ca got the time . |