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Example sentences for "found time"

  • This was a time of strenuous labour, for already he was planning a still more extended foreign tour; but he found time in the autumn of 1852 for a trip to Switzerland with Sir William Hooker and other friends.

  • Though he never lost sight of her for a moment, and kept continually wetting her hair and person, he found time to render assistance to others, and, by carrying his hat full of water here and there, extinguished many a dangerous spark.

  • The Bruders were very kind, and it was astonishing how much Mrs. Bruder, though burdened with her large family, found time to do.

  • Though his days were busy indeed, he found time gradually to study every pretty thing in the store.

  • His life, one would think, was busy enough, and full enough, yet amid it all he found time to write.

  • He worked hard, yet he found time to read, borrowing books from whoever would lend them.

  • But even while Dickens was leading this hurried, busy life he found time to write other things besides newspaper reports, and little tales and sketches began to appear signed by Boz.

  • Notwithstanding the assiduity with which he applied himself to his numerous avocations he found time to write several works.

  • In the midst of a life of affluence and gaiety he found time to cultivate his taste for polite literature; and finally became a repentant devotee.

  • I found time to manage such business affairs of Mr. Carvel's as he could not attend to himself.

  • In college, in addition to keeping up his classical courses, he found time to make an exhaustive study of the railroads of the United States, embodying these ideas in a pamphlet published shortly after graduation.

  • All of this went on at frequent intervals during the winter, and while I was organizing the Elkington Power and Traction Company for George I found time to dine and sup at Maude's house, and to take walks with her.

  • About agriculture he found time to exercise his taste.

  • During the latter part of this time he was not so engrossed in his business but that he found time to make frequent visits to New Ipswich, where Miss Martha Perkins, of Barnard, Vt.

  • But exacting as his occupations were, he found time to escape from Paris on three different occasions to see something of France and Europe.

  • He found time, however, to send to Madison his first estimate of the king and queen, a most unflattering portrait of poor Louis XVI.

  • From his retirement he found time to answer letters from Madison and Monroe.

  • You've found time to meddle with my affairs for a good many months, but I'm tired of it now; it's got to end.

  • With all his devotion to books, he found time to study men.

  • Busy as he was with his various tasks, he found time to fall in love.

  • During this period he kept up a correspondence with the Miss Grindlay, of Liverpool, whose appearance he had been struck with when he visited the family, and towards the end of 1837 he found time to visit there again accompanied by Dr.

  • He was a cheery and hearty host to his intimate friends, and took a pleasure in impromptu entertainments got up by himself in his own house, when he found time at his disposal for such amusement.

  • He found time in the midst of it all to enjoy the pleasures of home in the society of those he loved best, and of intimate friends.

  • But between inner vision and outward pleasantry he found time to watch the theatre crowd streaming by.

  • But they did not strike, and he found time to be grateful for this last kindness of life.

  • He found time to admire the ease with which she sat down, then lurched toward a chair facing her, overwhelmed with consciousness of the awkward figure he was cutting.

  • A trick picture," was his thought, as he dismissed it, though in the midst of the multitudinous impressions he was receiving he found time to feel a prod of indignation that so much beauty should be sacrificed to make a trick.

  • In his Journal for this day, and amid all his anxieties, he found time to note down one of his curious visionary cosmographical reflections.

  • His two sons, Diego and Ferdinand, were sent from Cordova to join him; and perhaps he found time to visit Beatriz, although there is no record of his having been to Cordova or of her having come to Seville.

  • Nevertheless I found time to present myself for examination, and, having passed with flying colours, next day found myself a full-fledged lieutenant, thanks to the very kindly interest taken in me by my genial old friend the admiral.

  • Then, indeed, we found time to look around us and to ask ourselves and each other where the French were and what they were doing.

  • To please his father, Ole Bull studied assiduously to fit himself for the preliminary examination of the university, but he found time also to pursue his beloved music.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "found time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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