Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She always slings my card just at the wrong time . |
| 3 | The other residents are mainly visiting academics , often very senior members of their own universities , from many countries , any academic discipline , and are staying in the college usually for a short time . |
| 4 | This does s seem to be in line with with practice nationally at the present time . |
| 5 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 6 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 7 | As director of the British Museum ( Natural History ) from 1919 to 1927 , Harmer 's equanimity enabled him to have good relationships with the trustees and he steered the Museum smoothly through a difficult time with tact and judgement . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good . |
| 10 | To complete any craft project you must exercise tempered self criticism , correct large mistakes by all means but maintain progress and see the job through in a reasonable time . |
| 11 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 12 | Watch your timing as you play this and make sure that you cut each chord off at the correct time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We may not see this place again for a long time . ’ |
| 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 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 17 | pending discussions but the whole thing Mr chairman really has n't erm has n't been decided to you know er a few colleagues point er I mean there 's nothing we can actually start and you can put pencil to paper on at the present time . |
| 18 | These mines were frequently tiny operations , perhaps run by families which might work an area only for a short time . |
| 19 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 20 | And the relief of seeing this woman out for a good time , smoking dope , getting drunk , flirting and still not deserving to be raped ! |
| 21 | Well I thought I was going to have the computer here for the whole time of Sarah 's stay you see . |
| 22 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 23 | Put as simply as possible the hypothesis is : — From the start of life up to a certain time which is designated the Dawn of Civilisation , ‘ goodness ’ was being created from one source only , that source being the endless stream of infinitely small but favourable evolutionary changes or events , producing an infinite number of minute units of what , by virtue of its favourable nature , has been termed ‘ goodness ’ , the outcome of each favourable event being regarded as one unit . |
| 24 | Aha this was a man who had been a joiner there for a long time . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want to do theatre again for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Several varieties of chalcedony , a silica in crystalline form , translucent and sometimes transparent , waxy to the touch , hard and extremely enduring , were treasured for jewellery , amulets and seal-stones from the earliest civilizations of the Old World down to the present time . |
| 27 | Many children come into care only for a short time while their parents try to sort out their difficulties . |
| 28 | Hopefully United could have found their form just at the right time . |
| 29 | Later in the century , with the rise of the labour movement , a different contrast was drawn , between capitalism and socialism , between ‘ bourgeois democracy ’ and ‘ socialist democracy ’ , and this distinction has largely dominated political controversy up to the present time . |
| 30 | Lifting very heavy weights can also raise your blood pressure considerably for a short time . |