Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It looks increasingly as if Moscow has no time for such trivial questions . |
| 3 | Mr Murray has no time for the fashionable preoccupations of academic critics or for the dead-end road of existentialism . |
| 4 | Donna wasted no time checking them out . |
| 5 | But Sikes and Toby wasted no time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the invitation came only a few days before the weekend fixed for the competition , giving the Ayrshire team no time at all to train . |
| 8 | Conran cites the time when Habitat and other leading British-Based retail groups were first entering overseas markets and had a struggle to make profits as another example of the fickle behaviour of City investors . |
| 9 | More than once Lina arranged the time and place of an interview , booked the plane , agreed the meals , models , set stylists and hairdressers only to find the whole thing suddenly cancelled . |
| 10 | Walker recorded a time of 8 mins 26.50 secs in Auckland two years ago , and after a highly successful , injury-free winter , had hoped for a better opening to his steeplechase season . |
| 11 | Spanish Christendom thus enjoyed a respite and Alfonso lost no time in consolidating his battered forces . |
| 12 | Cleo thought at first that the net would only drift right through the spirit , but it swiftly formed a sparkling ball round its prey , and Apanage lost no time in drawing the opening of the silk tightly together . |
| 13 | Determined not to be viewed as another Wang , Groupe Bull SA took the time to clarify to journalists its position regarding IBM and the RS/6000 last week at its Les Clayes-sous-Bois research and development centre in Paris . |
| 14 | The other Rex tossed the Time Sprout back into the lead bucket and screwed down the lid . |
| 15 | Being an ‘ illiterate mechanic ’ , Stephenson had no time for the niceties of laboratory research . |
| 16 | It was n't just that Bernice had no time for women who made themselves look like that ; the other woman demanded attention . |
| 17 | Marie had no time to think about Bella 's story : the little queue surged forward and they found themselves inside the double doors in a short corridor leading through to the main ward . |
| 18 | Ramsey had a time announced for hearing confessions and some people came . |
| 19 | Mcduff passed the time writing letters . |
| 20 | If anyone who went to the game on Sat has the time and inclination to write a report on it , I for one would be glad to read it . |
| 21 | It 's a wonder Lorraine finds the time . |
| 22 | And true to form Graham Sale lost no time in capitalising on an opportunity presenting Douglas Hurd with his own clock . |
| 23 | Gould lost no time venturing into the field , taking with him on some excursions his nephew Henry , who was understandably thrilled by the prospect of driving bullock carts ; his servant James , who he was zealously training in the art of taxidermy ; and sometimes his assistant Gilbert . |
| 24 | Aenarion took the time to raise his standard , and many Elves , survivors of the initial invasion , flocked to it . |
| 25 | Duroc took the time to watch as a stout , middle-aged man walked out onto the freshly-hardened tarmac , stripped to the waist and beaming a beatific smile . |
| 26 | Maggie Wheeler makes her guests feel entirely at home and certainly it is very easy to relax in this ‘ no rules ’ atmosphere , where you can enjoy meeting the other guests around the kitchen table in an informal atmosphere with Maggie taking the time to help you plan your itinerary . |
| 27 | Ian Wiley of Ireland had a time some 3 seconds faster than the winner but his 5 second penalty for touching a gate put him in 4th place overall . |
| 28 | Being obliged to earn a living without intermission , Jane had no time to pick and choose , but snapped up the first offer — on a woman 's magazine . |
| 29 | But Tallis had no time for the old man and his sad , bad dreams of lost possessions , lost knowledge . |
| 30 | Riven had no time to think before the Myrcan staff whistled around his ears , and smashed lights into his head . |