Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's worth reminding readers who are parents of this with the start of the school holidays next month — apparently it 's the prime time for solvent abuse . |
| 2 | This study highlighted a number of problems that family farmers faced when a member of the family came to work on the farm so perhaps it was an opportune time to look at this in more detail . |
| 3 | Philip saw a photograph of the house he 'd been to with Mrs Wright , only it was a different time of year . |
| 4 | but they do n't arrive there until erm Sunday night , so it 's a long time on the coach |
| 5 | So it 's the fourth time then ? |
| 6 | So it was a short time later she found herself under the hard eyes of Sister Mary , the large nun she remembered from last night , and her very hard hand . |
| 7 | and so it was a lovely time . |
| 8 | Admittedly in one or two cases the inference is fairly marginal but nevertheless it 's the first time all the numbers have been positive . |
| 9 | Anyway it 's the first time since the Revie years that we 've won 5 on the trot in the league so lets just be happy for a while . |
| 10 | Now it 's a long time since I went by tube , and there 's not much you can do in the carriages except keep a handkerchief over your nose , but a useful tip is never to put your hand on the rail beside the moving staircase . |
| 11 | ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time . |
| 12 | Intellectually it was an exciting time to be a research student in the English Faculty . |
| 13 | ‘ Well it 's a long time since dinner . |
| 14 | And he said well it 's a long time since you had the accident . |
| 15 | Well it 's a bad time of year ai n't it since Christmas ? |
| 16 | Well it 's an awkward time to ask people to go and fetch them when they 're if they 're preparing dinner is n't it ? |
| 17 | Well it 's the first time I 've been |
| 18 | Well it 's the only time we get chance to talk at the moment is n't it ? |
| 19 | Well it 's the best time to go . |
| 20 | Surprisingly it was the first time that Arsenal 's all-star attack had scored three goals in a game this season as they wrecked Coventry 's unbeaten away record with superb strikes from Alan Smith , Ian Wright and Kevin Campbell . |
| 21 | They 're alright down here , at least they were the last time we had them . |
| 22 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 23 | And even then it was a long time before the implications of the theory for massive stars were understood . |
| 24 | I had no idea where I was the first time |
| 25 | Although the RAF had standard instrument panels from 1936 onwards it was a long time before the merits of this tidy arrangement really caught on in the USA . |