Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This alternative was also deemed impossible in the limited time available . |
| 2 | She had not done that for a long time . |
| 3 | Are n't you playing the piano ? shall we get that book that you have , it 's yellow I think it 's down there , we have n't done that for a long time have we , we can do that while daddy and Tim are playing |
| 4 | ‘ We have n't done that in a long time . ’ |
| 5 | I have n't seen that for a long time |
| 6 | Yes , yes , she 's , she 's had , she 's had one of those and I have n't seen that for a long time . |
| 7 | Willie has completed 25 years service , also starting as a bank boy , then via spool setting to become a weaver before he was made redundant at the same time . |
| 8 | Tom , a professional engineer , set up the company 5 years ago after being made redundant for the third time . |
| 9 | And the chiller and the waterways and everything should all have been done all at the same time . |
| 10 | MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale . |
| 11 | He it was who rescued a number of precious unpublished test recordings from private collections , and caused them to be made available for the first time . |
| 12 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 13 | Though the commission could buy by agreement it had to have effective powers of compulsory purchase if it was ‘ to ensure that the right land is made available at the right time ’ . |
| 14 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 15 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 16 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 17 | He could well have returned late at night and she not heard him , though she had stayed awake for a long time , listening for the sound of the horses , the carriage wheels on the drive . |
| 18 | And … and I 've known that for a long time . ’ |
| 19 | Yes , I 've known that for a long time . |
| 20 | " I know , " Patrick said defiantly , realizing what she was trying to do , " I 've known that for a long time . " |
| 21 | I had hope to find a single sponsor , but this has not proved possible in the short time we 've had . |
| 22 | I had hoped to find a single sponsor , but this has not proved possible in the short time available . |
| 23 | WW346 was used for crew training , also for transporting groundcrew and spares , including engines , when the Squadron went on detachment to Malta , three aircraft out of the four were grounded all at the same time , because of engine problems . |
| 24 | She 'd left for England two days later , having spent most of the intervening time with Gaston . |
| 25 | Thirdly , he was declared bankrupt for the second time in 1912 on a creditor 's petition . |
| 26 | He was also declared bankrupt for the third time in September 1921 . |
| 27 | Innovators therefore have a good chance of being left alone for a long time . |
| 28 | " I have advocated this for a long time " , he declared , " and now I see that some of the shipowners are inclined to agree to it . |
| 29 | He suggested using watertight ox bladders as containers ; in them , tied to the saddle , plants could be kept fresh for a long time . |
| 30 | It is best made at the last possible moment , although it can be kept warm for a short time in a bowl set over a pan of hot water . |