Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These remain unused for the entire time that the child is in nappies . |
| 2 | Any scheme which attempts to remain stable over an extended time period will in some sense be a compromise . |
| 3 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 4 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 5 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 6 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 7 | The Timer IC2 is connected as a monostable — that is , once triggered in this way the output , pin 3 , goes high for a certain time then reverts to low . |
| 8 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 9 | Council goes public for the first time |
| 10 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 11 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 12 | she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous ! |
| 13 | And so it was actually becoming dangerous at the same time . |
| 14 | This alternative was also deemed impossible in the limited time available . |
| 15 | Most of the action would be improvised with two or three scenes happening all at the same time as in a mediaeval play . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , for some reason Heather wanted to know all about the last time Clare had been here , which , as it happened , I remembered very well , not just because it turned out to be the last I ever saw of her , but on account of something odd that had occurred . |
| 17 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 18 | In the mid-1970s Britain faced a more severe crisis , in which very high inflation , a balance of payments problem and continuing high unemployment occurred all at the same time . |
| 19 | Well one of the great lessons of life is of course you ca n't have everything you want all at the same time it took me about sixty years to learn that . |
| 20 | In their latest show , ‘ New Democratic Pictures ’ ( the first in Britain for three years ) , Gilbert and George ( who often appear alongside their exclusively male models ) pose naked for the first time . |
| 21 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 22 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 23 | I did n't think much of the first time really . |
| 24 | She had not done that for a long time . |
| 25 | Are n't you playing the piano ? shall we get that book that you have , it 's yellow I think it 's down there , we have n't done that for a long time have we , we can do that while daddy and Tim are playing |
| 26 | ‘ We have n't done that in a long time . ’ |
| 27 | She 'll do that for a long time , I bet . |
| 28 | I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible . |
| 29 | I have n't seen that for a long time |
| 30 | Yes , yes , she 's , she 's had , she 's had one of those and I have n't seen that for a long time . |