Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [art] [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 3 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 4 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 5 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 6 | Mind you I ca n't talk , I looked in the mirror a couple of weeks ago and my eyes are , I mean are really they 're having a rough time indeed |
| 7 | ‘ You 're having a marvellous time out there . |
| 8 | In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too . |
| 9 | He 's taking her out for meals and they 're having a good time together you know . |
| 10 | ‘ Enduring ’ means nothing if you 're having a rotten time now , so you guys love Shakespeare and in the meantime I ca n't get a good hot cup of coffee in this country . |
| 11 | This contrived notion of a rock'n'roll band touring around — we 're doing all that shit and we 're having a great time too . |
| 12 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 13 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 14 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 15 | Pupils at Kensington infants ' school are having a marvellous time just mucking about . |
| 16 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 17 | Knowing that the fox might be given a bad time afterwards would n't be a lot of consolation . |
| 18 | We 're supposed to be having a good time today ! ’ |
| 19 | Poor thing , she must be having a rotten time just now . |
| 20 | I 'm having a great time here . |
| 21 | ( 7° ) I 'm writing to say I 'm having a marvellous time here The gestural usage must be glossed a little differently , as " the pragmatically given space , proximal to speaker 's location at CT , that includes the point or location gesturally indicated " . |
| 22 | , my first years had two children , had no breast problems and I 'm having a horrendous time just now and I 'm on H R T , I 'm on my third different kind ! |
| 23 | That 's been gone a long time now . |
| 24 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 25 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
| 26 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 27 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 28 | It may be that there is now enough information available to answer questions that were asked a long time ago but never answered . |
| 29 | Such a phenomenon may be explained in various ways , but one factor of acknowledged importance is certainly the rapidity of economic and social change , which tends to separate more sharply the experience , expectations and outlook of older and younger generations , as Mead ( 1970 ) argued in a study in which she likened the ‘ dissident young ’ to pioneers who are exploring a new time rather than a new country . |
| 30 | I mean , I look at John Lee Hooker , he 's still smiling , he 's having a good time just doing it . |