Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 2 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 3 | I shall not give way to my hon. Friend , as I believe that I have done so once already and I have only a little time left . |
| 4 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 5 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 6 | Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’ |
| 7 | I loved him , as much as an alien can entertain love for a being on a green planet where she knows she has only a certain time . |
| 8 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 9 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 10 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 11 | You will be disqualified if you step out a fourth time . |
| 12 | ‘ I think ’ , wrote Baxter , ‘ that she had scarce a pleasanter time in her life than while she was with me there . ’ |
| 13 | The ballroom had been thrown wide to accommodate the funeral guests , and Mrs Diggory was busy serving refreshments to the gentlemen who had just a short time since returned from the graveside of the deceased Lady Merchiston . |
| 14 | Panic will not be too far away if having collected all your information you have only a little time to write the speech . |
| 15 | Are we going out a third time ? |
| 16 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 17 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 18 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 19 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 20 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 21 | We have perhaps a little time . |
| 22 | If the ERM continues to impose on this country an unemployment rate 750,000 above what it would otherwise be — and that is the average for Europe — we have only a short time before the racist and neo-fascist plague descends on us also — which is why launching the Anti-Racist Alliance was so urgent . |
| 23 | They had only a short time before followed the tantalising fresh scent-trail laid by Grant and Larsen , which they had then lost at the foot of the house wall . |
| 24 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 25 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 26 | Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up a fastest time of the day . |
| 27 | Both women had been surprised when he turned up a second time . |
| 28 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |
| 29 | it seems quite a long time |
| 30 | He recorded again a short time later : The overseers are harassed to death and summoned everyday before a justice , this will never do … |