Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how I got the time to play . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I just ca n't remember when I found the time to wash my hair and iron creases into my flares . |
| 4 | I spent the time making the house look nice ; I wanted him to know just what a lovely home I could build for us . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Late in the afternoon , I decided the time had come to go . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She decided the time had come to leave the bordello , and seek lodgings somewhere in the vicinity of the Pont du Sevres . |
| 12 | Standards in areas perhaps you wish you had the time to teach employees yourself . |
| 13 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 14 | She just feels she wanted the time to do it in her time . |
| 15 | She had never thought of herself as an indecisive person , but now she did n't know whether she wanted the time to pass quickly , or whether she wanted to guard jealously the hours left to her of Fen 's company . |
| 16 | She stole the time to brush them clear with the side of her hand then slipped back inside , hoping no-one would notice her . |
| 17 | ‘ We spent the time avoiding bombs , ’ he said . |
| 18 | They passed the time chatting as they knitted or mended . |
| 19 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 20 | He passed the time Dreamwalking . |
| 21 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |
| 22 | He found the time to write about his travels when he was a prisoner-of-war years after his great journey through the Hindu Kush , the Pamirs , Kashgar , Yarkand and the Gobi Desert to reach Beijing in search of trade in 1275 . |
| 23 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 24 | To Charles he was an indispensable source of wisdom and experience and he relished the time spent in his company . |
| 25 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |
| 26 | ‘ He thought the time had come for me to have a car , and very kindly provided me with one . |
| 27 | Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’ |
| 28 | If Jewish control could not be challenged constitutionally it would have to be done by acts of Steel ; and he saw the time approaching when , like the mayor of Bethlehem , he would have to arm his son against the Jews . |
| 29 | He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last . |
| 30 | Then , just over two years later , John announced at the AGM ( which we use as an opportunity to set spiritual and practical goals for the year to come ) that he felt the time had come for church number three . |