Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 3 | The phone seemed to ring for a long time . |
| 4 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 5 | Is there anybody else please who 's going to live for a long time ? |
| 6 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 8 | To avoid inconvenience it may be scheduled to run at a specific time when LIFESPAN itself is not required . |
| 9 | Once the presence of a carcass has been directly or indirectly detected , they glide down to it rapidly , and large numbers of vultures are thus enabled to assemble in a short time . |
| 10 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 11 | Why , d' ya get , do you have to retire at a certain time ? |
| 12 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 13 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 14 | As a result , they are normally very tired during weekdays when they are compelled to wake at a normal time for work . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's wanted to go for a long time , ’ said Anne , nodding . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Sheisse , ’ he added explosively as if he had at last allowed himself to be convinced of something which he had wanted to believe for a long time . |
| 19 | I 'll see that bugger tomorrow mornin' if I have to get up at five , an , I 'll tell him what I 've meant to do for a long time ; I 'll take the can along to the authorities . |
| 20 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 23 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |