Example sentences of "[verb] there [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katina MacDonald , widow of one of their descendants lives there at the present time . |
| 2 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 3 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |
| 4 | ‘ They will have their tails up and I do n't think we could be going there at a harder time . |
| 5 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 6 | we 're getting there at the right time |
| 7 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 8 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 9 | Typist Mary Kupenda says : ‘ Such workplaces will be called brothels and men will flock there for a nice time ’ . |
| 10 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 11 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 12 | It is difficult knowing how far to credit such stories in twelfth-century sources , although given that the Ramsey chronicle is recording the history of its own house , and that the Peterborough source refers to trouble there at the same time , it is reasonable to believe that trouble of some sort there was . |
| 13 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 14 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 15 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 16 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 17 | A diver absorbing excessive nitrogen must ascend to a designated depth to reduce the pressure and remain there for a specified time for what is known as a ‘ decompression stop . ’ |
| 18 | The pension has been transferred to the Legal and General and has been left there at the present time to grow and be managed . |
| 19 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 20 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 21 | This is what strikes fear into the hearts of all but the most experienced , and has men playing there for the first time knocking at the knees . |
| 22 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 23 | The first was occupied by Miss Trimby , the last of a family that had lived there for a long time whilst her neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Collins with their middle-aged bachelor son . |
| 24 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 25 | However , there were two big differences : Whites had more in privately rented accommodation and had lived there for a shorter time ; these areas contained only 6 per cent . |
| 26 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
| 27 | Sat there for a long time , her mind blank . |
| 28 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 29 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 30 | He stayed there for a long time . |