Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 2 | As one of them said on being asked if she ever felt that she spent too much time on her own in the daytime : |
| 3 | His skin was bronzed , his thinning hair was bleached by sun and sea , and Wycliffe felt sure that he spent as little time as possible away from boats , the sea , and the club bar . |
| 4 | Some teachers identified an increase in paperwork and one felt that he spent too much time trying to raise the money for new projects from sources outside school before the head took the request for funding seriously . |
| 5 | She recognised that her son had not always been as attentive as expected towards his wife or the children and that he spent too much time with friends like Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 6 | One can not help but feel that one of the reasons why Edberg was beaten in his opening singles — without in any way detracting from Nestor 's fine achievement — was that he had so little time for either his body or his tennis to adjust after the journey to another time zone — and surface — from Australia . |
| 7 | What he was asking her to do required a degree of trust that he had too little time to earn . |
| 8 | ‘ It was too easy to let the mind wander and I spent too much time looking at the leaderboards instead of concentrating on my own game . |
| 9 | Erm indeed I saw him , I saw Ronnie once in a hotel in er in Washington , this was the time it was n't actually the time he was shot cos I got away that time but the |
| 10 | The sea was trying to break the ship into pieces , and we had very little time . |
| 11 | If you had a bloke like John tha that virtually ran the force for several years whether you liked him or whether you did n't he he he was efficient in running the force erm especially when Charlie was was into the erm in a big way and he spent very little time with Nottinghamshire John ran the force made the decisions and cracked on with it |
| 12 | If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form . |
| 13 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 14 | The fair hair had faded to a dusty grey , and his skin looked pale and unhealthy , as if he spent too much time indoors , but the green eyes were lusty with life and rebellion against the confines of the wheelchair he was manoeuvring into the room — |
| 15 | It struck her as odd , for example , that Turner , if he spent so much time on Chelsea Reach , should n't have known that a seagull always alights on the highest point . |
| 16 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |
| 17 | He was given a questionable standing count in the second of three thrilling rounds , but he spent too much time battling rather than boxing and too much time on the ropes instead of using his footwork . |
| 18 | Sketchy jumping had let down Country Member on a number of occasions last season but he fenced soundly this time , quickening well between the last two to take command . |
| 19 | We used to joke that we almost got nose bleeds when we stood up to our normal size because we spent so much time at floor level . ’ |
| 20 | Because he had too much time , he 'd go to the club afternoon and night . |
| 21 | He got the boot after his wife walked out and half the players quit because he spent so little time trying to improve the side 's miserable record in Delmenhorst , Germany . |
| 22 | Emil himself and Oliver delivered the necessary , although Emil on his return said he hoped this was n't going to happen at lunch and dinner also , because it took too much time . |
| 23 | In a talk with the Prime Minister this morning he asked whether I thought too much time of Ministers was taken up by Committees and whether there were too many Committees . |
| 24 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 25 | He was in a very strange mood when he went away this time . |