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 .
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