Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 2 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 3 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 4 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 5 | Erm well actually what I wanted was a repeat of my prescription , but I wondered why the last time I had one I got sixty instead of a hundred that I got before ? |
| 6 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 7 | My mom said she had just the greatest time with you all last year . |
| 8 | ‘ I think ’ , wrote Baxter , ‘ that she had scarce a pleasanter time in her life than while she was with me there . ’ |
| 9 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 10 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 11 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 12 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 13 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 14 | They had only a short time before followed the tantalising fresh scent-trail laid by Grant and Larsen , which they had then lost at the foot of the house wall . |
| 15 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 16 | Both women had been surprised when he turned up a second time . |
| 17 | He recorded again a short time later : The overseers are harassed to death and summoned everyday before a justice , this will never do … |
| 18 | In terms of this country , in particular , you said that it , it started roughly the same time because of the , the legislation in nineteen oh nine . |
| 19 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 20 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 21 | He planned to bring her to meet his parents before he went there a second time , with her . |
| 22 | It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him . |
| 23 | But America does not look like a disorganised company most of whose workers do not have a boss ; or at least it did not the last time it deserved worldwide respect . |
| 24 | After a short while he found that the gypsies were taking their horses to him to be shod ; and he had quite a busy time shoeing gypsy horses . |
| 25 | He had enough the last time did he ? |
| 26 | Then he remembered the guard back at Wissembourg and knew he had only a limited time to cover his tracks . |
| 27 | As it was a weekend , all the bigger-wig doctors were not on duty but , knowing of Nigel 's condition and that he had only a short time to live , they brought him through . |
| 28 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |