Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Can I have a little time to think it over ? ’ |
| 2 | I very nearly took you then and there , standing up , in a cold dark cave … after that I needed a little time to sort through my feelings , sabiha tieghi … ’ |
| 3 | It was fortunate that I had a little time to accustom myself to being in such a place and to the thought of seeing my father . |
| 4 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 5 | He got out of the car and went up and down on his haunches a few times to ease some of the stiffness from his legs , then started to walk the mile or so back to the hotel gates . |
| 6 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 7 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 8 | When she first joined the company , packing vitamins and herbal medicines three years ago , she took a little time to get used to the work . |
| 9 | If you take a little time to pack , your luggage should arrive in one piece with crumple-free contents . |
| 10 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
| 11 | ( Parody : chorus to the tune of ‘ You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Lucille ’ ) |
| 12 | Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time . |
| 13 | There was a long pause , the kind of pause that winners always display as they create a little time to savour their victory . |
| 14 | Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ? |
| 15 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 16 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 17 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 18 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 19 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 20 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 21 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 22 | Allowed to remain in the cool waters of the pool , they take a considerable time to reappear and fulfil their role , and often fall prey to browsing water snails . |
| 23 | It seemed a good time to make my excuses and leave , and I did both . ’ |
| 24 | Once a nectary has been drained , it takes a little time to refill . |
| 25 | It takes a long time to visit every house in the neighbourhood — and enjoy some hospitality while one is there . ’ |
| 26 | But it takes a long time to regain trust . |
| 27 | It takes a long time to reach Dynjandi , but the weather improves as the day wears on , leaving me with wonderful views across the Arnarfjörđ3ur , its far peaks wreathed in clouds . |
| 28 | If the property does not sell at all , or if it takes a long time to sell , the local authority search result may become dated . |
| 29 | The second — Mr Lawson 's line -that demand is indeed slowing down , but that it takes a long time to affect the balance of payments . |
| 30 | Banks are like supertankers : it takes a long time to turn them round . |