Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emil , the crew and I wasted no time watching . |
| 2 | I do n't know how I got the time to play . |
| 3 | Joking apart , after nine years as a security operator I found it hard to readjust my life but , now I do not know how I found the time to do a full time job . |
| 4 | I just ca n't remember when I found the time to wash my hair and iron creases into my flares . |
| 5 | I spent the time making the house look nice ; I wanted him to know just what a lovely home I could build for us . |
| 6 | One afternoon , a week later , I decided the time had come to stop dithering like a Victorian maiden and to write to Bill , when I got off at ten that night , asking if no news was good news . |
| 7 | Late in the afternoon , I decided the time had come to go . |
| 8 | As I found when I took the time to listen to parents and hear what they said , the views advanced did not always fit the latest fashion or an approved passage in a book on sociology . |
| 9 | ‘ He was sitting in the village street , and I had no time to stop and see to him . |
| 10 | I had no time to answer ; I spotted Dad edging his way through the throng . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , Mr Price , I had no time to collect my warrant card . |
| 12 | I had no time to explore this cheering information further because the door opened and the big man returned . |
| 13 | I had no time to search thoroughly . |
| 14 | But you should certainly avoid obvious personal intrusions , such as the two following : The confession " Sorry , I had no time to complete this essay , so I have made some basic points that I would have brought out and discussed . " |
| 15 | Ellen offered me a poisonous smile , but I had no time to worry about her distaste for the militaristic para-medic . |
| 16 | This put all other thoughts to one side and I had no time to worry about the captain . |
| 17 | When the day came I had no time to think . |
| 18 | ‘ I had no time to think , ’ she said , grinding the words out , ‘ until the funeral was over . ’ |
| 19 | I had no time to find out , because just then I heard the noise of the drawbridge coming down . |
| 20 | I had no time to warn you . |
| 21 | I had no time to hide before it was over and gone . |
| 22 | I had no time to feel sorry for him though because I was under considerable strain myself . |
| 23 | Agony ‘ I had no time to feel nervous about facing Steve Bull and Andy Mutch . |
| 24 | But I had no time to reply because just then the door opened and there stood the old lady in her black lace dress . |
| 25 | Dick described his part in the restoration project as ‘ chase and race ’ — ‘ I wish I had the time to do the mechanical work , I like that , but I did the parts sourcing and chasing and telephone calls . |
| 26 | Along the way she found the time to set up Ranzau , and in March this year the couple ploughed their capital into beefing it up . |
| 27 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 28 | Lying on her bed , trying to read a book , she watched the time tick round until it was a reasonable time to get undressed and try to sleep . |
| 29 | She decided the time had come to leave the bordello , and seek lodgings somewhere in the vicinity of the Pont du Sevres . |
| 30 | There were certainly those who felt the time had come to end the war , a courageous stance in view of the Imam 's known determination to keep going . |