Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 2 | For England I suggest the best time is between late September and the end of November , avoiding Remembrance Sunday . |
| 3 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 4 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 5 | Hepzibah says when they lived in Norfolk she had an awful time looking after him because he was always in fights and he was young then , too young to hurt anyone much . |
| 6 | Alison says parties and dinner parties can be the last places she has a good time . |
| 7 | These days it takes a long time to get into the ‘ left-hand seat ’ or captain 's position in a major airline ; indeed , as time goes on more and more airline pilots have to recognise the possibility of reaching retirement before they achieve command . |
| 8 | With Serafin back in Oxford and Mrs Padmore hard at work on the tapes he has a little time on his hands . |
| 9 | If you read an article or book twice you will probably be surprised by the many new things you discover the second time . |
| 10 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |
| 11 | It takes at least five Americans to write a book erm they 're all multi- authored volumes erm for , for most of your purposes , for almost all your purposes er and certainly for basic reading for , for lectures and , and tutorials it really does n't matter which one you read erm there are , I mean there are in the library I think the last time I counted them about twenty five or thirty general textbooks on American politics , it does n't really matter er which one you read . |
| 12 | Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time . |
| 13 | At any rate it took a long time to synthesize . |
| 14 | If you want decent trees it takes a long time to grow them ! |
| 15 | But it 's like pouring kettles of hot water into a cold bath it takes a long time for them to make an impression . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I remember the hangover I had the last time I went on the tiles with you , and tomorrow I have to ply squash at nine . |
| 17 | I soon discovered that a lot of the local children stuck together and that outsiders were n't made very welcome — even if you come from another part of Cornwall it takes a long time to be accepted . |
| 18 | I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’ |
| 19 | I do n't think it is the same ones we had the last time . |
| 20 | He wanted to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he had a long time ago , but she said it made her feel middle-aged and dull and ordinary , so he must never say it again , especially when other people were around . |
| 21 | But the way he landed the third time I knew he would n't get up again . |
| 22 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
| 23 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 24 | After leaving school he spent a short time in his father 's office . |
| 25 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 26 | Some of them you remember the table we had a long time ago showing the reactivity of different elements , particularly the metals when we were looking at metals . |