Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard . |
| 2 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 3 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 4 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 5 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 6 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 7 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 8 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 9 | The election arrived just at the right time . |
| 10 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 11 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 12 | I called in at the wrong time . |
| 13 | By Luke 's own admission he saw her as shallow , someone interested only in a good time and a string of boyfriends . |
| 14 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 15 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 16 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 17 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 19 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 20 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 21 | That went on for a long time . |
| 22 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 23 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 24 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 25 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 26 | This went on for a long time . |
| 27 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 28 | She looked down at the diminutive Time Lord , her eyes full of quiet sympathy . |
| 29 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |