Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 3 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |
| 4 | It takes at least five Americans to write a book erm they 're all multi- authored volumes erm for , for most of your purposes , for almost all your purposes er and certainly for basic reading for , for lectures and , and tutorials it really does n't matter which one you read erm there are , I mean there are in the library I think the last time I counted them about twenty five or thirty general textbooks on American politics , it does n't really matter er which one you read . |
| 5 | At any rate it took a long time to synthesize . |
| 6 | But it 's like pouring kettles of hot water into a cold bath it takes a long time for them to make an impression . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I remember the hangover I had the last time I went on the tiles with you , and tomorrow I have to ply squash at nine . |
| 8 | I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’ |
| 9 | He wanted to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he had a long time ago , but she said it made her feel middle-aged and dull and ordinary , so he must never say it again , especially when other people were around . |
| 10 | But the way he landed the third time I knew he would n't get up again . |
| 11 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
| 12 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 13 | After leaving school he spent a short time in his father 's office . |
| 14 | Some of them you remember the table we had a long time ago showing the reactivity of different elements , particularly the metals when we were looking at metals . |