Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] time [conj] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er actually my cousin 's just recently been married er then again I do n't know her phone number at this present time but I 'll , I 'll perhaps , I 'll perhaps er |
| 2 | Progress was slow , but by the mid-eighteenth century success had been achieved in both methods of calculating longitude : the Greenwich astronomers had worked out the tables for the movements of the moon and an English watchmaker , John Harrison , had made a chronometer that kept such perfect time that it could meet the requirements of any sailor . |
| 3 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 4 | It was Grand National time and he could n't think of anything but Top Spin Lob . ’ |
| 5 | Seems a long long time since we used to do it . |
| 6 | I got changed in double quick time but she must have beaten me . |
| 7 | ‘ Call me a fucking thief one more time and I 'll smash your fucking face in ! ’ |
| 8 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 9 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't want to waste any more time if I can help it . ’ |
| 11 | Clearly , only a percentage of lesions bleed at any one time and it may be that screening favours the detection of more slowly growing tumours ( length or time bias ) . |