Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I been here a long time . |
| 2 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 3 | I was only a short time standing there , but long enough to take in the vessel 's lines , the quite dainty sheer , her size and the layout of the masts and rigging . |
| 4 | And , of course , you must make sure you 're here the next time we come swimming . ’ |
| 5 | you were right the first time . |
| 6 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
| 7 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
| 8 | ‘ You were away a long time , ’ said Pip . |
| 9 | ‘ You were there the whole time ? ’ |
| 10 | Safely ensconced with her fishhouse in a Devon village , she is now a full time fishkeeping journalist and translator . |
| 11 | She was away a long time . |
| 12 | It 's rather a long time is n't it ? |
| 13 | It 's probably the worst time in the world to tell you , but there you are . |
| 14 | It 's also a good time to decide where you 're going to sit for example , in the dining room or the lounge . |
| 15 | April is the NHIC 's National Home Improvement Month and it 's also a great time of year to take a look at your home and see what needs doing . |
| 16 | It 's also the first time that outsiders have been allowed into their close-knit community . |
| 17 | You see … it 's no the right time … whit ah mean is — that this is my bad week . ’ |
| 18 | It 's perhaps the one time you 'll bless starting with a completely clean slate ; at least there are no existing possessions that might perhaps prove difficult to accommodate . |
| 19 | It 's always a happy time with young children in the house and everybody gathers around , it 's a family time for us and we enjoy it . |
| 20 | He went on relentlessly , ‘ You 've come without gear for camping or fishing , and it 's definitely the wrong time of the year for swimming in the river . ’ |
| 21 | If you plant a crop , it 's quite a long time before it |
| 22 | ‘ It 's quite a long time since I made any . |
| 23 | That it 's quite a long time to achieve . |
| 24 | It 's quite a long time since breakfast . ’ |
| 25 | It 's only a short time to squeeze in eight gramophone records , is n't it ? |
| 26 | It is also a suitable time to look forward to a new Government which will use the Department of Social Security to defend the interests of pensioners , the disabled and others in need , rather than the interests of the Treasury , the wealthy and the political constituencies of the Conservative party . |
| 27 | The 3-0 defeat of England is a first for India and it is also the first time they have recorded a 3-0 win against any other country . |
| 28 | It is certainly the only time I have played at a ground with a hovercraft as a pavilion . |
| 29 | It is certainly the first time since Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979 that Labour has ended its conference with the Conservatives on the defensive . |
| 30 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |