Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [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 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
3 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
4 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I called in at the wrong time . |
7 | 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 ? |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
10 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
11 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
12 | The noise went on for a long time . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | That went on for a long time . |
15 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
16 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
17 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
18 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
19 | This went on for a long time . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | She looked down at the diminutive Time Lord , her eyes full of quiet sympathy . |
22 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
23 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
24 | Nobody passed by for a long time , and he could just hear the faint music in the distance . |
25 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
26 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
27 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |