Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This continued for a long time during which he shuffled his feet uncomfortably , controlling his immediate impulse to shout at her to be quiet . |
| 2 | Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum . |
| 3 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 4 | It all seemed like a long time ago , but actually it was only this morning . |
| 5 | It all came at the right time , she said , at exactly the right time . |
| 6 | Without any recourse to molecular interpretation Boltzmann proposed that " the forces which act on the surface of an elementary parallelepiped at the given time but also on the previous extensions , with the promise that the longer the time since they took place the smaller their effect . " |