Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 2 | Having driven past in the usual manner , the driver then had to go through a second time in reverse so that the mourners on the other side could also take a look . |
| 3 | The case was heard for a second time in mid-1986 , when he was convicted on six counts of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment , but the verdict was later overturned . |
| 4 | At night the harbour lights up and the atmosphere becomes electric as the streets of Aghios Nikolaos fill up with people looking for a good time in the restaurants , bars and discos . |
| 5 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 6 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 7 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 8 | He felt that Emerson was going through a hard time in his own life , that he was confused , that he was having marital problems , that Brazil and his family were getting him down : in other words , that Emerson was under a lot of pressure . |
| 9 | In a sense it is a personal keeping of the ‘ minutes ’ of what occurred at conferences or in battles which will remind the writer what happened at a precise time in the course of events . |
| 10 | When bought in large pieces , such hams may be further enhanced by baking for a short time in a hot oven with a glaze of either honey , ginger syrup , marmalade mixed with orange juice or fruit syrups . |
| 11 | An oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation has a mean cost of £783 based on an average time in theatre ( including induction and recovery ) of around three hours and includes the cost of the staples £130 ) . |
| 12 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 13 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |
| 14 | After leaving the magazine , Caroline worked for a short time in the Cardiff newsroom . |
| 15 | An endowment policy pays a capital sum to the insured at a specified time in the future , or on death if earlier . |
| 16 | The voyage took eight months , and after stopping for a short time in Malaysia , we arrived in the Gulf of Tongking . |
| 17 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 18 | The Tynedale Fenwicks and the Liddesdale Elliots were involved for a long time in a savage , unyielding feud ; and the Armstrongs , among their many clashes , quarrelled simultaneously with the Scottish Turnbulls and Johnstones and with the English Bells , while the Bells were also feuding with the English Grahams . |
| 19 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 20 | He deliberated for a long time in front of the pad , and then suddenly rose and put it away without writing anything . |
| 21 | By that I do not mean simply that Christianity arose at a certain time in history . |
| 22 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |
| 23 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 24 | It may be possible to study for the course by distance learning , so that the modules can be covered at an appropriate time in your training . |
| 25 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 26 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 27 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 28 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
| 29 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 30 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |