Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] time " in BNC.

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1 I had barely time to recognise the shaven and scarred head emerging from the heap of Bibles and screwed-up paper , when a quick movement caught the corner of my eye .
2 I had just time to pull on a clean shirt and a pair of Chinos — Springsteen 's favourites as they show up his black hairs to best effect — before the local news came on the TV .
3 I had just time to think what a help he was being when another boot landed in my guts and I gasped for air .
4 I had hardly time to see that a car had been driven up to a shop window and was now rapidly reversing out of it when two young men wearing stocking-masks and bundled up in thick clothing , making them unidentifiable , came rushing into the street , each swinging a bag of loot .
5 She had just time to nod before the advance guard entered .
6 But concentrating as she was on simply surviving , she had neither time nor energy enough .
7 She whiled away time walking along the Mootwalk , an ancient wooden cloister that faced the Hilder and under which was a row of shops : an optician 's , a hairdresser 's , a wine shop , a jeans and sweater boutique , a newsagent , the pet shop .
8 ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career .
9 There seemed hardly time for anyone to wander off , but wander she had , and she had come to swinging happily on a swing in the park playground .
10 Er I do n't suppose they had much time for , for relaxing and sitting down .
11 But that 's how it started both times before , and if I lose this baby , I 'll — ’
12 Keeping the Sabbath was originally one of the Ten Commandments because it kept aside time to honour the Creator .
13 He had just time to form them up and move a little way forward himself from their hiding-place , to where he could see the ford and its approaches on either side , when the first fleeing riders came pounding down , splashing over and racing on .
14 So what happened about time and a half ?
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