Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 heart-throb Luke Perry has spoken for the first time of his nightmare childhood with a drunken father who beat up his mother . |
| 32 | Sheila Silcock has spoken for the first time about her anger when her son Ben was banned from a MIND drop-in centre in Roehampton , south-west London . |
| 33 | Moreover , the P cepacia problem has emerged at the same time as social networks have developed between adult patients with CF , and their families ; many individuals have derived great mutual benefit from these contacts , which provide for most of their social activity . |
| 34 | England marksman David Hirst has trained for the first time in five weeks after recovering from a cracked ankle , and is desperate to link up with Chris Waddle . |
| 35 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 36 | The Paraguayans , says Obdulio Menghi of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , " are working like never before , because of the professional and political [ commitment ] that the country has assumed for the first time . " |
| 37 | Under headlines such as ‘ Fiend 's third victim ’ ( Daily Mirror ) and ‘ Terror of tape bondage rapist ’ ( Sun ) , it was noted how ‘ a sticky-tape sex-fiend has struck for the third time ’ bringing ‘ terror to a triangle of Hampshire towns ’ . |
| 38 | The idea is to order everything you want to eat at the same time , then work your way through the tower of baskets . |
| 39 | We have just noted how local politics in Britain has recently become more diversified , but , as Chapter 4 pointed out , this has happened at the same time as political power has become increasingly centralized . |
| 40 | Significant vertical uplift probably began in the Oligocene about 35 Ma ago and has continued to the present time , but at varying rates . |
| 41 | BUCKINGHAM Palace has admitted for the first time that Princess Diana 's marriage is in trouble . |
| 42 | ENGLAND boss Graham Taylor has admitted for the first time that his team flopped in the European Championship finals because they were n't fit enough . |
| 43 | If the files are on computer then the printout should indicate the time that has elapsed since the last time entry on the file . |
| 44 | ‘ It 's probably the most important match either team has faced for a long time . |
| 45 | The policy of keeping the membership subscriptions low has survived to the present time , despite the improvement in the economic circumstances of the deaf community as a whole . |
| 46 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 47 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 48 | Mont Blanc , to be sure , has existed for a long time , and probably will exist for a while yet , but it does not work to stay in existence . |
| 49 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 50 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 51 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 52 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 53 | Thou hast done wonders in a little time , not only made a rake a husband but thou has made a rake a preacher . |
| 54 | They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme . |
| 55 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 56 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 57 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 58 | Rosemary , who has learnt to cope with severe tinnitus , is all ready to set sail for the THIRD time aboard Lord Nelson , the specially adapted tall ship for disabled adventurers run by the Jubilee Sailing Trust . |
| 59 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 60 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |