Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [art] [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The tobacco industry plans a long time ahead . |
2 | The seal spent a long time underwater , thinking . |
3 | But for Ben Hunt ; his passion for motorbikes started a long time ago . |
4 | Mr Howes said a short time later , Alan began to sway . |
5 | ‘ The coach arrived a long time ago ! |
6 | The story of Eddie Aikau began a long time ago : |
7 | It says , for instance , that it ‘ should have done what COSE did a long time ago . ’ |
8 | Stephen entered a short time later , looking anxious . |
9 | She swallowed hard and began , ‘ Well , the Big Bang happened a long time ago . |
10 | But then , all this business happened a long time ago . |
11 | Cardinal Heenan warned a long time ago that by the year 2,000 there would be no Catholic Church in our country if something was not done to rectify things . |
12 | The Cage disappeared a long time ago in the past , leaving whoever buys the property , a clear view across the Chilterns into the future . |
13 | After all , these things happened a long time ago . |
14 | THE head went a long time ago , then it was the legs — but on Thursday night it was Martina Navratilova 's heart that had gone from her game . |
15 | And it must have been the fever , Isabel decided a long time later , when she at last had time to sit down and rest . |
16 | They live modestly on income from securities that Edhi bought a long time ago . |
17 | The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later . |
18 | ‘ I 've told yer plenty of times , me an' Tommy finished a long time ago . |
19 | ‘ I know McCallen had a quick time late last night when he took the Honda out in the 250cc practice with the number crossed out but , of course , his speed on that occasion was purely unofficial . ’ |
20 | The ditch seemed a long time ago : two weeks and three days back to the lonely silent abandoned struggle in the attic , to the life that seemed now to be the dream , with Shellerton the reality . |
21 | Women who have done things to children get a bad time inside if the other women know and can get hold of them . |
22 | Police said a short time ago that a thirty one year old local man had been arrested . |
23 | A new song , ‘ Pussy Cat Meow ’ , celebrates them and a dream Kier had a long time ago . |
24 | no , it 's your birthday have a swinging time on |
25 | Researchers investigating the causes of psychological depression spent a long time carefully documenting how severe , traumatizing events that happen to people , such as bereavement or job loss , can induce it . |
26 | But human beings discovered a long time ago that if the birds were taken away from their homes , they had an uncanny ability to return even across miles of territory that was totally unknown to them . |
27 | What bugged me was the way they sampled that line ‘ Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ’ from the film Withnail and I. It was a shame , since what I liked was the way the album had its own space and logic . |
28 | The Prime Minister departed a short time later with the Ministers of Transport and Energy escorted by Lord Hampshire . |
29 | Well Aunt Sadie said a long time ago |
30 | Ulster Country had a disappointing time up in the North-West last year and will be anxious to regain the trophy last won in 1990 . |