Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Universities are ready to go for the big time and exploit their earning capacity in a way they have n't in the past . |
| 2 | In Romania the legacy of the late President Ceausescu 's National Stalinism' will persist for a considerable time and the directions of change can not easily be predicted . |
| 3 | Train services on the Esk Valley line were delayed for a short time and the Sprinter train was allowed to continue its journey after it had been examined by experts . |
| 4 | He would gaze for a long time and , when Gabriel had finished his tasks , would settle again until the ghost reinforced itself somewhere else a few days later . |
| 5 | If I add that the majority of Cubists were formerly considered to be Fauves , I can demonstrate how far these young artists have come in a short time and the logic of their vision . |
| 6 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 7 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 8 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 9 | Sailors from off the boats would be looking for a good time and public bars would resound to the sound of many voices . |
| 10 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 11 | They are , no doubt , conditioned by the environment in which they live , they act in a given time and place . |
| 12 | Such an application shall be refused unless made within a reasonable time and will not be granted where the party applying has taken any step in the proceedings after knowledge of the irregularity . |
| 13 | This is the highest quality educational package I have seen in a long time and is well worth registering . |
| 14 | Such policies can not work , because cuts have to be made at a difficult time and even more jobs are lost . |
| 15 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 16 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 17 | The Direct Tableware Company sales director Roger Young agrees that it will be next spring before any real growth in catering occurs , but he thinks there might be a slight upturn next month in the top-up business : ‘ It 's heading for the busy time and you ca n't serve customers without knives and forks . ’ |
| 18 | But after plunging towards the relegation zone with just four points from the previous 21 , he admitted : ‘ We have been going through a bad time and We needed this win . ’ |
| 19 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 21 | These are goods which last for a long time and which yield the household utility-creating services both in the current period and in future periods . |
| 22 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 23 | It is generally accepted that in order to watch over an executive , the system of supervision has to be constructed in parallel so that information about the salient issues is extracted at the right time and the process of scrutiny is based on this information and takes place when the decision is still open . |
| 24 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 25 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 26 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |
| 27 | It is useful for would-be choreographers to study the historical development of classical style so that they may stage a ballet in a traditional way when it has a story firmly linked to a particular time and place . |
| 28 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 29 | In 1940 he had been quite prepared , if need be , to serve in a dangerous capacity in the ranks because he felt he could be more useful in such a rôle at that critical moment in the country 's affairs , rather than go through the extra time and training there and then for a commission . |
| 30 | You know , you may go for a long time and not see any , then you 'll see two or three in possibly a week . |