Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patience has sat upon it a long time , |
| 2 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |
| 3 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 4 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 5 | Has known about her a long time . |
| 6 | It seems to us a good time to tap our shareholders . |
| 7 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
| 8 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 9 | John C. Francis ( of the Athenaeum ) recorded that , ‘ I had occasion to call on him a short time before his death , when we joined in a hearty laugh over his former furious attacks upon the Athenaeum . |
| 10 | I stared at it a long time . |
| 11 | I looked at him a long time , and the smile went away . |
| 12 | enabled them to buy their Council houses , at er cheaper rate because they 've lived in them a long time and its , its given a lot of people more independence , unemployment would of happened who ever was in power |
| 13 | The an the result of getting the quotient and by the time you get to looking at those you 'll integration 's hard and you will not ever say again what you said to me a long time ago that you thought integration was a lot easier than differentiation . |