Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was n't going to come charging back , forcing her to remember things she had worked long and hard to forget , turning her entire world upside down for a second time . |
| 2 | Never wipe Rosie and Jim off for a long time . |
| 3 | To complete any craft project you must exercise tempered self criticism , correct large mistakes by all means but maintain progress and see the job through in a reasonable time . |
| 4 | And then a percent I could get you a percent off as a first time buyer . |
| 5 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 6 | Well w we did n't have to do , do anything that way because we were allowed our freedom up to a certain time and that was it . |
| 7 | Infra-red detectors are very effective devices — they react to body heat , and will leave lights on for a predetermined time after they first sense body heat . |
| 8 | Take Magnus out at a different time , or take him somewhere else . |
| 9 | And the relief of seeing this woman out for a good time , smoking dope , getting drunk , flirting and still not deserving to be raped ! |
| 10 | Put as simply as possible the hypothesis is : — From the start of life up to a certain time which is designated the Dawn of Civilisation , ‘ goodness ’ was being created from one source only , that source being the endless stream of infinitely small but favourable evolutionary changes or events , producing an infinite number of minute units of what , by virtue of its favourable nature , has been termed ‘ goodness ’ , the outcome of each favourable event being regarded as one unit . |
| 11 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |
| 12 | She had to leave the floor , they had to walk , that 's right , they had to walk on the concrete floor without tiles on for a long time |
| 13 | You know , I feel that is left , left angina , because I 've got to rip the brassiere off at a certain time of the day |
| 14 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |