Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , like Amy , Chelsea has little time for affairs of state . |
| 2 | King Edward visited several times when shooting parties and other entertaining took place on a lavish scale . |
| 3 | Farmer Colin points out that this selfless operation is always carried out with a complete lack of regard for personal safety and reminds the committee that Josh has several times fallen off his load just outside the King 's Head . |
| 4 | As the record company , and its revenue from worldwide licensing deals , became more important , so Branson spent more time with Simon Draper and less and less with Nik Powell . |
| 5 | Rangers ' Stuart McCall spent more time on the ball than all of Hibs ' midfield put together and never wasted a moment , either . |
| 6 | Toby spent some time smoothing the ruffled sensibilities of Corbett Farraday ( ‘ I mean , after all , when you n–y to give them a bit of fun … ‘ ) , then he went to check the changing huts , which Bill Muggeridge usually forgot to lock after his afternoon tearing round blowing whistles at the boys . |
| 7 | Molly spent more time with the Corduroys and was introduced to the Tapscotts , a white-haired couple : Nicholas , who had been the British Consul in Florence , and his wife Connie . |
| 8 | Moreover , Corbett loved this time of the year and realised how much he missed Maeve and the serenity of his own manor house . |
| 9 | Ian Penman did that time and again . |
| 10 | As far as state-owned items are concerned , Italy , Greece , Spain and Portugal oppose any time limit on requests to return an illegally removed object , on the grounds that it would be inalienable . |
| 11 | With entire responsibility for teaching and discipline , Hill had little time for original work ; but his edition ( 1816 ) of Artis Logicae Compendium by Henry Aldrich [ q.v. ] proved an acceptable university textbook , reaching a sixth edition in 1850 . |
| 12 | Kathleen had several times suppressed the thought that if they had telephoned to the doctor half a day earlier , Faith might . |
| 13 | Not that Bobby had much time for sea-bathing . |
| 14 | This desire , Hilton says , is the " love of Iesu " which is the ground of salvation whether or not man experiences the joy and love in the kind of illuminated understanding which is the special gift of the contemplative : Hilton spends some time at this stage of the book finding imaginative ways of pointing to the goal of contemplative discipline — the finding of Jesus who is lost in man 's soul as a treasure buried in a field ( c.49 ) but who also is a joy beyond all that desiring can encompass ( c.46 ) . |
| 15 | It looks as though Richard had some time ago given up his insistence that Angoulême should be inherited by Vulgrin 's daughter Matilda . |
| 16 | Alan Shearer and Ian Wright need more time for their partnership to mature . |
| 17 | Mercifully , by the third day Nigel got some time on his own and was able to go out and buy a meal . |
| 18 | In nineteen seventy four , Reg spent some time at the National Circus School in Paris , where he learnt , amongst other things , that the life of a circus performer was not for him . |
| 19 | Sebastian spent more time out of the house . |
| 20 | Besides being one of Henry III 's most frequent ambassadors to Rome , Alexander served many times as papal judge delegate . |
| 21 | Pupils at S5/S6 spent less time on health education than any other group of pupils . |
| 22 | Pammy Jane spent some time with her parents after the split before moving to the Highgrove estate near Tetbury , Glos . |
| 23 | ‘ So young Boden spent some time alone in there , alive and active . |
| 24 | Ollie remember that time when we beat up Paul in ? |
| 25 | ’ … into Taunton yesterday , ’ he became conscious of Tessa saying some time later , ‘ to get some special new antibiotic for Jester . |
| 26 | Berenson appears many times in the book — thinly disguised as ‘ Somberen ’ , when Joni has a particularly barbed comment to make about him . |
| 27 | Ireland represented this time by Christy O'Connor Jnr and Ronan Rafferty were champions back in 1958 while Wales won five years ago through Ian Woosnam and David Llewellyn . |
| 28 | Behind the external appearance of harshness and reserve lay sensitivity , suffering , even humour ; Wordsworth took some time to get to know , but those who dared to make the attempt were often agreeably surprised . |
| 29 | Heath went some time in March , I think . |
| 30 | Alexia whistled this time , off-key . |