Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour . |
2 | Waiting in the third round could be fourth seed Boris Becker , who has had a torrid time in the build-up to the French Championships but who has a good chance to find his feet with a first round match against 579th-ranked French wild card Nicolas Escude . |
3 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
4 | She has had a bad time . |
5 | ‘ For one who intends to stay a long time with us , Englishman , you know little of us . |
6 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
7 | Erm but she 's had a nice time . |
8 | She 's had a terrible time |
9 | She 's grown , she 's changed , she 's had a brilliant time , but her best is yet to come . |
10 | White face , dark circles and short temper — she 's had a brilliant time ! |
11 | She 's had a bad time and no mistake . ’ |
12 | She 's had a bad time , so the buzz has it . |
13 | ‘ I had no idea that Mary was on that tack ; she 's a nice girl and she 's had a hard time what with that husband of has and now her father almost bedridden with arthritis . ’ |
14 | She 's a fine girl , Seb , and she 's had a hard time . |
15 | She 's had a distressing time . |
16 | In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead . |
17 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
18 | It has exploited a slack time — the hiatus between the end of tunnelling work on the Channel link and the start of London 's Jubilee Line Underground extension — to demand that contractors work to tighter margins : between 3 and 7 per cent , compared with the 15 per cent allowed by North West Water , for example , on its contracts . |
19 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
20 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
21 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
22 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
23 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
24 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
25 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
26 | A man gets tired of his business and his family , and he wants to have a good time . |
27 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
28 | It does take a little time to right a market that has got so badly out of step . ’ |
29 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
30 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |