Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 2 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 3 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 4 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 5 | Infra-red detectors are very effective devices — they react to body heat , and will leave lights on for a predetermined time after they first sense body heat . |
| 6 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 7 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 8 | Many children come into care only for a short time while their parents try to sort out their difficulties . |
| 9 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 755 ) Beornred succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Aethelbald but held it only for a short time and unhappily . |
| 10 | Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home . |
| 11 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 12 | Earlier marriages with fewer children means that couples are together for a long time after their children have left home . |
| 13 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 14 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 15 | An application for relief may be filed only within a reasonable time after the defendant has knowledge of the judgment . |
| 16 | By Luke 's own admission he saw her as shallow , someone interested only in a good time and a string of boyfriends . |
| 17 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |
| 18 | So far as I can see , unless there are fundamental changes in the British economy , the recession ai n't going to be over for a considerable time because the economy is in such a state . |
| 19 | ‘ ( 1 ) When the seller is ready and willing to deliver the goods , and requests the buyer to take delivery , and the buyer does not within a reasonable time after such request take delivery of the goods , he is liable to the seller for any loss occasioned by his neglect or refusal to take delivery , and also for a reasonable charge for the care and custody of the goods . |
| 20 | It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back . |
| 21 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 22 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |
| 23 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 24 | Well w we did n't have to do , do anything that way because we were allowed our freedom up to a certain time and that was it . |
| 25 | You might arrange for pay to be given out at a different time and check whether the trains are less crowded somewhat earlier in the afternoon . |
| 26 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 27 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 28 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 29 | If your engine is fitted with a viscous coupled cooling fan and the viscous unit is faulty after running the engine fast for a short time and then slowing down the fan continues to spin freely and even speeds up . |
| 30 | We will help those that we have to help legally , or perhaps those whom people want to help , but we will not have foisted upon us those who come here for a good time and a good life . |