Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Was n't I the best prospect Bermondsey 'ad for a long time before I got me wound ? ’ he asked . |
| 2 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |
| 3 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 4 | Without any recourse to molecular interpretation Boltzmann proposed that " the forces which act on the surface of an elementary parallelepiped at the given time but also on the previous extensions , with the promise that the longer the time since they took place the smaller their effect . " |
| 5 | Dr Robat Williams , who has devised the joint charter , said the launch came at a difficult time because of the General Election campaign . |
| 6 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 7 | Soapy moved on , but he walked for a long time before he tried again . |
| 8 | It was unfortunate that he returned for a short time but this was necessary in order for him to complete training prior to deploying on an operational tour . ’ |
| 9 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 10 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 11 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 12 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
| 13 | I slept for a short time but was woken when the coach stopped . |
| 14 | Viscount Nigel-Constantine and the elderly Bishop Hugh of Lisieux waited until the agreed time and took ship , with decorum and in an atmosphere of surprising goodwill . |
| 15 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 16 | Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum . |
| 17 | I also stayed for the required time that politeness dictates . |
| 18 | ‘ I strongly suspected for a long time that there were other men . |