Example sentences of "he [vb past] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wasted little time in finding a replacement , choosing the widowed Mary of Guise . |
| 2 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard . |
| 3 | It was wonderful to be so close to him again , to feel no barriers between them , and he wasted little time before possessing her with such quick , hot urgency that she was left behind . |
| 4 | Once free of these troubles he wasted little time in turning his attention to England . |
| 5 | By adopting this method of study he wasted less time and it also enabled him to learn more efficiently . |
| 6 | and he got same time as I did . |
| 7 | He decided that although the Prime Mover had granted his wish , it was up to him how he used that time ; but with his badly broken body there was little he could do . |
| 8 | He shouted this time , and tugged harder . |
| 9 | She thought he welcomed some time alone . |
| 10 | True , there was Crown prince Tupouto'a waiting in the wings , but he spent little time in Tonga and had a reputation as a playboy — a Farouk-like figure given to white suits and expensive lady friends . |
| 11 | Mr X found the sound of running water reduced his tinnitus ; on bad days he spent much time in the bathroom . |
| 12 | He spent much time visiting most states of the Union and acting as a super salesman for Iran . |
| 13 | From 1883 he spent much time abroad , especially in areas of active volcanoes . |
| 14 | He spent much time today and yesterday denying that he would increase from 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 15 | In his early years in Edinburgh , he spent much time in reorganising and rationalising the pathology service in the Royal Infirmary and associated hospitals and he laid a sure foundation of academic pathology in the Medical School . |
| 16 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 17 | He spent more time hanging out at Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 18 | And Tucker was saying , ‘ He spent more time in the islands these past years than ever before . |
| 19 | He spent more time on the Vibrancy at Mandru than he ever had in Por Tanssie . |
| 20 | Soon Gabrielle learned to leave him alone in his despair , and he spent more time playing darts and billiards at a Battersea pub . |
| 21 | Since the Congress Kingdom of Poland was only one of a number of outlying parts of the empire which required his attention , and since he could hardly afford a forward policy in western Europe or the Balkans until his own peripheries were fully integrated into the imperial structure , he spent more time in the 1830s and 1840s on his own non-Russian subjects than on dealings with foreigners . |
| 22 | If he spent less time jetting around on EC business and more solving Britain 's problems , perhaps a lot more people would have jobs , too . |
| 23 | He spent less time there than he meant to : it was a cell , cool and enclosed , whereas from the terrace in front of the sunlit house one could see , sipping wine , the valley of the Rhone away below , lavender fields , olives , vines . |
| 24 | He still has sufficient force , passion and reputation to get his way if he puts his case forcefully enough and yesterday he spent some time in conclave with Carrick , Neil Hartley and coach Doug Padgett . |
| 25 | He spent some time afterwards making a special metal umbrella . |
| 26 | He spent some time in Rome , later Florence and then , in 1923 or 1924 — he was n't quite sure — he ‘ fetched up ’ in Naples . |
| 27 | He spent some time expressing his preference , for tactical reasons , for smaller neutron bombs before developing his argument . |
| 28 | He spent some time climbing about and peering in all directions . |
| 29 | Hanna was very interested in our latest developments for vertical take-off and Mickie says he spent some time discussing this subject with her . |
| 30 | He spent some time actually living as a boarder in houses in the areas that he was studying , and making detailed studies of particular families . |