Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 2 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 3 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 4 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The old adage is to promote harder during the difficult times , ’ admits Mr Bacon . |
| 6 | In the bite-shaped hollow , a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards . |
| 7 | ‘ The letters are the firms , the numbers are the prices in pence of a typical Alpha stock and the volumes they are prepared to deal in at a particular time . |
| 8 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 9 | If you want information to go out at a specific time , time it very carefully , and just bung it out , as it were , and , and reckon it 's there at that stage . |
| 10 | ( A teenager who forgets to call in at the appointed time may cause real distress ) . |
| 11 | Provided we take enough water with us there 's no reason why we should n't be able to hold out for a considerable time in the banqueting hall , which is in a far better situation for defence … and let me remind you that with every passing day , relief comes nearer … perhaps as much as twenty miles nearer with every day 's march … |
| 12 | ‘ I hope to get home at a reasonable time tonight , but it rather depends on what Kegan wants . |
| 13 | Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One . |
| 14 | It seemed to ring out for a long time . |
| 15 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 16 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 17 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 18 | But there always remains still one point of complaint by some members of the public , that is that the grass that 's cut does tend to blow about , but if the cutting is frequent , there 's less grass t to blow about at a given time . |
| 19 | Any objective should be realistic or , in other words , possible to achieve successfully within the forecasted time span . |
| 20 | but we obviously have to cut off at a certain time to er get the accounts and audited in time . |