Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 2 | ‘ Have I come at a bad time ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 5 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 6 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 9 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 10 | These are goods which last for a long time and which yield the household utility-creating services both in the current period and in future periods . |
| 11 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | We kiss for a long time , then I straighten up . |
| 15 | We watch for a long time , Tony catching the show on camera , then notice that the temperature has plummeted with the clearing of the sky and turn in . |
| 16 | Truly , we live in a dark time . |
| 17 | Truly , we live in a dark time . |
| 18 | They are , no doubt , conditioned by the environment in which they live , they act in a given time and place . |
| 19 | That maybe they get to a certain time when they 're going to be out of touch ? |
| 20 | It really does come down to , I do n't know , I mean , every year we play it very honestly and very straight , and we push him in a position where next year , if there is a next year , I think the last time that we played it straight we got clobbered , so let's pay a little bit less , and keep a bit back for when they come round a second time round . |