Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 2 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 5 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 6 | I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs . |
| 7 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |
| 8 | They 're er they live in at the present time and er his name 's Paul and he 's the main Skoda dealer in Nottingham . |
| 9 | Therefore I believe that man and his God have evolved together over that immense period of time which started with the advent of earthly life , reaches right through to the present time and will continue onwards forever , or until there is no longer life on earth . |
| 10 | The Third period reaches from the end of the Second period , right through to the present time and on for ever , or until there is no longer life on earth . |
| 11 | The alarm may go off at the wrong times and this can be very irritating but the fault can be capitalized on and the child encouraged to get up and go to the lavatory anyway . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 17 | Geoffrey Markham , the youngest Cumbermound boy , was up at the same time and they and the Bishop 's son , Thomas , formed something of a set . |
| 18 | Well there there are three there are three organizations or companies there that I think you 'd be er happier in especially going out for the first time and also er your style . |
| 19 | They only stop at St Felice one out of every three times and , when they do , the bag is chained to their wrists . ’ |
| 20 | Yep … thanks Chappie … you helped pull us back into the big time and gave us a lot of enjoyment ( even when you fell over when trying to control the ball : - ) . |
| 21 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 22 | At the end of the session , I brought Maxine back to the present time and out of the hypnotic state and asked her what she felt . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He has to get the barley , go out at the right time and sow it . |
| 25 | ‘ But he comes out at the right time and he stays on his line at the right time . |
| 26 | To get her into a routine , I started leaving food out at the same time and place every day , always whistling the same tune , so that she would associate it with being fed . |
| 27 | It was unfortunate that the Arab-Israeli war broke out at the same time and some overseas commentators took the presence of Canberras in this guise as proof of British participation in the war ! |
| 28 | It is essential that proper planned maintenance of equipment is carried out at the recommended time and is correctly recorded , and rectified as quickly as possible , stating the remedial action taken . |
| 29 | Cal turned round for the first time and stared at Vern . |