Example sentences of "the time [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I covered the lecture for the Times Herald , and it was ‘ an unusual performance ’ . |
| 2 | Hinkley Point A , for example , even with the benefit of the ‘ mechanized army ’ so lyrically portrayed by The Times correspondent , took seven and a half years to build instead of its projected five , and went about 25 per cent over budget ( £34 million ) . |
| 3 | It is 1972 and I am travelling in a minibus through the Bekaa Valley , The Times correspondent in Ireland on holiday in Lebanon , unwittingly choosing to spend my vacation in the country in which I shall much later spend more than 13 years of my life . |
| 4 | ‘ A steward had his head cut through being struck , it is believed , with a spanner , ’ the Times correspondent wrote , ‘ The chairman read the Public Meetings Act 1908 in the presence of a large number of police . |
| 5 | This was a case of Gentlemen versus Players in the golden age when such distinctions still applied and when it was obvious to anyone with an eighth of an intelligence that no paid journeyman could ever begin to compare with the rapier-like ‘ amateurs ’ who flitted with effortless superiority , solving one crime after another with a brilliant insouciance which was the dismay of the criminal fraternity , the envy of the constabulary , and a source of immense satisfaction to most of the upper middle class , especially those with an aptitude for the Times crossword . |
| 6 | If you have grown a beautiful rose , learnt to type or finished the Times crossword , you have succeeded in something which mattered to you . |
| 7 | He taught me a great deal about The Times crossword , and I taught him how to swear . |
| 8 | On his return home he would eat a large English breakfast and , before starting on his work , would play a hand or two of patience and begin The Times crossword . |
| 9 | Anne Ridler noticed how Eliot " affected a certain detachment from the proceedings , and did The Times crossword during the meetings , but his business judgments were as shrewd as anyone 's … " |
| 10 | Roderick 's interests were wide ; for example sport ( cricket , tennis and football — both varieties ) , good music ( he played the violin ) , verse ( he read extensively and composed , when inspired or provoked , to match an occasion and could recite extensively from memory — particularly W. S. Gilbert ) , games and puzzles ( chess , cribbage , mathematical conundrums and crosswords ; he could , at his zenith , do The Times Crossword any day in less than twenty minutes ) , and art ( he was an active member of The Bristol Savages ) . |
| 11 | Middlemass had finished The Times crossword by quarter to ten and had made the rest of the paper last as long as possible . |
| 12 | While other members of the cast were betting on horses , doing their football pools or playing cards , Ken would be the centre of a small circle that also included Hattie Jacques , Joan Sims and Kenneth Connor , doing the Times crossword . |
| 13 | Give him a pen , a pint and a puzzle and he 's happy LUNCH for Bill Pilkington usually comprises a pint and The Times crossword lingering over one and whizzing through the other . |
| 14 | Mr Pilkington says The Times crossword calls for a certain amount of literary background but it helps generally to get to know the minds of the compilers . |
| 15 | I did it so quickly , all the rest , I thought with The Times crossword , I 'm , I whooping through this like mad . |
| 16 | Brian Inglis , The Times reporter and television presenter , suggests in a recent book that some of our famous authors may not have actually written their bestsellers . |
| 17 | The Times reporter also quoted a British General urging his men to ‘ Go on the paras , go and get them ’ , and said that the lower ranks appeared to him to be relishing their work and perceiving the Bogsiders as ‘ legitimate targets ’ ( ibid.:41 ) . |
| 18 | AFTER eight years as The Times man in the north of England , Peter Davenport has left ‘ The Thunderer ’ to become a partner in the expanding Harrogate public relations , design and contract publishing company Paul Sowerby Associates . |
| 19 | I do n't know what you said to The Times man , but when I opened the paper in bed ( at mea mos est ) wondering whether my letter would find a place at all-well I dived under the bed clothes and went pink all over-as pink as you ! |
| 20 | The great discovery , however , was in The Times index : ‘ Inquest on Katharine and Stephanie [ Primrose ] Compton-Burnett ’ . |
| 21 | The Times story is interesting because it links the report on the Commission 's activities with the Royal Society , a body which had become embroiled in official political-scientific propaganda exercises before , such as the five-year study of acid rain financed by the Central Electricity Generating Board . |
| 22 | Anatole Kaletsky , the Times economics correspondent , who was the first person to expose the punitive nature of John Smith 's shadow Budget . |
| 23 | ( One of the subvoices of pornography in my head is the voice of an obsessed black tramp or retard who roams the Times Square beat here in New York . |
| 24 | The ground floor of the Times Building housed the Business Office ( Circulation , Want-Ads , Accounts and the private office of Mr Thomas Miller ) at the front ; behind it was the Composing Room with its rows of eight linotype machines along the north wall and the fonts of type and form-tables . |
| 25 | Because the Times price cut was so large , no-one 's sure if its gains are due to the publicity , or it 's proved wrong the conventional wisdom about quality newspaper pricing . |
| 26 | It success is partly demonstrated by the fact that school examination results in West Sussex ranked third in the country according to The Times performance league . |
| 27 | Dr Murphy , Chairman Emeritus of the Times Mirror Corporation , and one of the most powerful figures in the American museum world ( see The Art Newspaper No. 4 , January 1991 , Vernissage supplement ) , is both a Trustee of LACMA , and Trustee Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu , California , whose director was under consideration . |
| 28 | Traffic lights throughout Seaham were thrown into chaos yesterday after a heavy goods vehicle hit a post on the Times Inn bank , bringing down an electricity cable . |
| 29 | Publicity accelerated as the Times Beach residents scattered , and government technicians moved in late last year . |
| 30 | He would make the arrogant assumption that she was complaining about all the times separation would deprive her of him . |