Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Those behind the Premier League shudder at the prospect of them heading for the big time . |
| 32 | The Hudson Report received a general welcome from interested parties in agricultural education but , like reports on many other areas of further education , nothing happened for a long time . |
| 33 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 34 | Those who had been in Italy before the end of 1989 and who registered within an appointed time limit were to be allowed to remain in the country and would be granted rights to medical care , schooling and equality of opportunity in relation to employment . |
| 35 | If a variable x(t) is plotted against itself delayed by an appropriate time lag T , then x(t) plotted against x(t+T) will give a point for a sink , and a single closed loop for a limit cycle . |
| 36 | A TOTALLY PSYCHEDELIC GUY , aged 16 , who lives for a good time is out to see if there are any zany females into Pink Floyd , Cult and The Who . |
| 37 | If you 're in any doubt about it , do n't — you 'll do less harm if you leave it than if you prune at the wrong time . |
| 38 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 40 | erm and he was released and he came to Harlow and we meet him and that was , that was very good , erm , but we have n't had one like that , you know for a long time . |
| 41 | one mistake you know forget something and you 'll be going round like this five pints I use , I use to see quite a lot of things missing you know in a certain time |
| 42 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 43 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 44 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 45 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 46 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 47 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 48 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 49 | Damn Jake ! she thought for the hundred-millionth time . |
| 50 | She was suffering from sunstroke and she died within a short time . |
| 51 | If you tack at the right time , when the wind slightly changes in direction , large amounts of ground can be made over those who are oblivious to the shift . |
| 52 | So in the case of a ruler who reigned for a long time , coins enable us to date the changes during the reign . |
| 53 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 54 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 55 | It will do you good , help you to get over the bad time you 've just had . ’ |
| 56 | The first chief justice was John Jay , who resigned after a short time due to his belief that the job would never amount to anything . |
| 57 | I enclose herewith a photocopy of my suggested replies to the various categories , with the exception of ‘ What is your planned use of reserves ? ’ and ‘ What is your Regional charge on band D of the Council Tax ? ’ , both of which I will leave for you to insert at the appropriate time . |
| 58 | They are born under the ancient Chinese curse , ‘ May you live in an interesting time ’ , a time in which values , lifestyles , relationships , employment are up for grabs , and in which traditional answers to the question ‘ How to live ? ’ are weak and conflicting . |
| 59 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 60 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |