Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to pick yourself up when you get rebuffed for the thousandth time , and despite the discouragement , do n't lose heart . |
| 2 | It is the most addictive drug ever — many become addicted from the first time they use it . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook . |
| 4 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's the most charming man I 've met in a long time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You are the most frustrating piece of womanhood I 've met in a long time , ’ he rasped . |
| 7 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 8 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 9 | Well I think there is the the only report that I 've got is the fact that the financial summary er you 've seen at the same time as I have . |
| 10 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 11 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
| 12 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
| 13 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |
| 14 | Elland Road was the emptiest I 've seen in a long time , 23,000 of which 4000 were Crewe fans . |
| 15 | Hell of a good film though , it 's the best film I 've seen in a long time . |
| 16 | And more particularly in Appendix Three , you 've got for the first time , individual chief officers and general managers comments , for achieving a better equal opportunity profile in their department or unit . |
| 17 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 18 | first thing I 've had for a long time is er that . |
| 19 | ‘ This is one of the best evenings I 've had in a long time , ’ Sam said , sipping his coffee . |
| 20 | why , that 's what the problem you 've spoken for a long time you just know it , but you do n't know why you use that way , you just do that way . |
| 21 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
| 22 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 23 | You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ? |
| 24 | ‘ It was as hard as I 've practised in a long time , ’ said the Ryder Cup player . |
| 25 | I wonder — I 've wondered for a long time — was I right , or was I wrong ? |
| 26 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 27 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 28 | You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’ |
| 29 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 30 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |