Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least the enemy had taken time to bury the soldiers , but what a way to go ; dead and buried in a ditch hundreds of miles from home . |
| 2 | The weed seemed to stop time within its boundaries . |
| 3 | In an effort to keep it in Fort Worth the museum agreed to allow time for a public subscription rather than following the normal procedure of consigning it to an auction house . |
| 4 | The group managed to find time to visit Disneyland , the Epcot Centre and MGM Studios as well ! |
| 5 | Consider two strategies , Defect and Tit-for-Tat ( TFT ) — i.e. cooperate in the first game , and subsequently do as your opponent did last time . |
| 6 | At first the Athenians and Inaros were brilliantly successful , as revolts from Persia often were , initially — before the Great King had had time to mobilize a feudal force from nothing . |
| 7 | Appeasement caused by blindness was followed by delaying tactics and doublespeak intended to buy time . |
| 8 | The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without . |
| 9 | Erm if they have n't then you just get a few ideas , got a graphics pack and you say well is this the sort of thing you want , well this is what the er the builder did last time . |
| 10 | The Washington Post commented that " some politicians wonder , however , if Meciar 's shift is a genuine retreat , or a tactical manoeuvre intended to buy time and lay blame for an eventual split on the Czechs " . |
| 11 | The Washington Post commented that " some politicians wonder , however , if Meciar 's shift is a genuine retreat , or a tactical manoeuvre intended to buy time and lay blame for an eventual split on the Czechs " . |
| 12 | So that when you left er the mother had had time to , to get up she had n't had any bad nights . |