Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUSTIN FARTHING wasted no time picking up the winning thread following his disappointment at Aintree with the Martell Fox Hunters ' favourite , Rushing Wild . |
| 2 | Almost an hour passed with my heart thumping every time the door of number four opened . |
| 3 | Her shift passed rapidly , and , though her heart fluttered every time someone walked in the door of the lounge , it was never a wet , muddy , and very angry Matthew Blake . |
| 4 | For these considerable services he received nothing , his enemies using the time he was away to poison Francesco I Sforza against him , not least because they were jealous of the work on the chapel . |
| 5 | These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man . |
| 6 | When the chart specifies a time outbound such as the 3 minutes on the adjoining pattern , such time is meaningless unless allied with a specific speed to produce a specific distance . |
| 7 | They only managed to convert one of them , when Shaun Taylor found the time and space in a crowded penalty area to knock home the equaliser . |
| 8 | But dance has long been a popular option at Haughton where teacher Jenny Ruston says its hard to find the time to meet all the demand from boys and girls . |
| 9 | It looks increasingly as if Moscow has no time for such trivial questions . |
| 10 | You must have LIFESPAN Manager privilege to adjust the time to shut down . |
| 11 | To give a full description of even a simple evening out at the theatre could cover numerous pages , and it is unlikely that the writer has the time or wish to do this . |
| 12 | A predator dashing in for the kill has no time to assess the minute details of the eyes to detect whether they are real or false . |
| 13 | Mr Murray has no time for the fashionable preoccupations of academic critics or for the dead-end road of existentialism . |
| 14 | It recognises that money has a time value by discounting future cash flows at an appropriate discount rate . |
| 15 | Two or three of Dr McNab 's supporters wasted no time in surreptitiously slipping their cards of emergency instructions from their pockets , crossing out the name McNab , and substituting that of his rival , before settling back to watch their new champion in the lists . |
| 16 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 17 | At the same time , Libet set up a procedure for allowing subjects to report the time at which they first experienced the conscious intention to act . |
| 18 | In the end , over 600 people were able to take part in the inquiry , a remarkably high figure given the time required to prepare and attend and the intimidating feel of the proceedings . |
| 19 | Donna wasted no time checking them out . |
| 20 | But Sikes and Toby wasted no time . |
| 21 | Graham reluctantly pushed one of the cassettes into the system , waved the cigarette smoke irritably from his face , then turned his attention to the New York skyline and started to name the numerous skyscrapers to himself in an attempt to pass the time . |
| 22 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 23 | It is a problem which has occupied the minds of those whom Canon Roger Lloyd has dubbed ‘ station saunterers ’ ( ‘ the railway lover counts no time wasted which he spends sauntering on a good station ’ ) . |
| 24 | She knew that Maggie was being polite , trawling for subjects to pass the time till she could safely move away . |
| 25 | Er to come before two o'clock we 've got part three of the strange things that people do around Nottinghamshire to pass the time . |
| 26 | In the short run , however , will the Secretary of State tell the House whether it is his intention to set a time limit beyond which talks will not be pursued by Her Majesty 's Government until after the next general election ? |
| 27 | He spent an uncomfortable day surrounded by burly miners threatening to smash his Dansette with baseball bats every time he put on another part from the ‘ Ring Cycle ’ . |
| 28 | The car faded every time I lifted my foot . |
| 29 | The Figure shows the time courses of syn-PLA2 , cat-PLA2 , and pan-PLA2 in serum samples from patients with oedematous or necrotising episodes of acute pancreatitis . |
| 30 | It was an infuriating trait , and it made her blood boil every time he came near . |