Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 2 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 3 | Often he was right , often I gave him a bad time for sticking his nose in . |
| 4 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 5 | ‘ I forgave you a long time ago . ’ |
| 6 | And in return , no doubt , you gave him a good time in bed ! ’ |
| 7 | You did it a long time before anybody else . |
| 8 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 9 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 10 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 11 | They gave me a bad time — they 'd all been in since they were seventeen and they were hard men . |
| 12 | and I visited their friends and went to their church with them and they gave me a wonderful time , did everything for me |
| 13 | As far as I was concerned , it made it the logical time to sell . |
| 14 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 15 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 16 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 17 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 18 | It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like . |
| 19 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 20 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 21 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 22 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 23 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 24 | Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot . |
| 25 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
| 26 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 27 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 28 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 29 | I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug . |
| 30 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |