Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 " It 's a long way for him to come every time he wants a crap , said Eddie , running off before I could hit him .
2 He 'd never had a name as a chaser and I could n't imagine him picking a time like this to start .
3 Gifted though mankind is in creating sheer wanton destruction , nature has him whacked every time . ’
4 You hear him squeak every time he moves . ’
5 He checked the time of arrival on a big gold bracelet watch , and there were handsome cuff-links with a shamrock in tiny emeralds in each shirt-sleeve .
6 He checked the time — 3 a.m .
7 He passed the time Dreamwalking .
8 He passed the time of day with Two Coats the tramp .
9 Having risen from Ukrainian coal mines through the party ranks as a tough and brutal Stalinist , once he achieved personal power he wasted no time in opening his mind to the ways of the rest of the world .
10 His thoughts often centred on the foot of the horse , and he wasted no time in his introductory lecture before remarking on the correlation of structure and function that was exhibited by the frog of the foot .
11 Then brother Jack strolled in and he wasted no time in chatting them up .
12 He wasted no time targeting Wegerle as the man to make the most from former England winger Chris Waddle 's brilliant prompting .
13 He wasted no time ; his very first question was about Cecil King .
14 He wasted no time on regrets .
15 He wasted no time in looking round and it was only when he was backing the van to drive away that his face could be seen .
16 Certainly he wasted no time in calling up his reserves .
17 On returning to Vietnam , he wasted no time in spreading his knowledge , and when the Japanese invaded , he set up a guerrilla resistance force , the Viet Cong , to fight the invaders .
18 In his final , however , he wasted no time .
19 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 .
20 Love C. ’ He appended the time of the best train .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 He found the time and energy , however , to write a pamphlet attacking a scheme for Church Union in South India .
24 Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking .
25 He has no time for inefficiency , and he reserves a particular scorn for the manner in which the medical profession organises itself .
26 He has no time for wafflers . ’
27 He has no time for players who are not totally honest with him or with their approach to the game .
28 He has no time for the factory-made products of China , Pakistan or Morocco .
29 He has no time for interfering adults , but I was not to be daunted ; I stuck to him until I saw for myself that he had no methods and did not teach , or rather , did not impose .
30 He has no time for fools .
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