Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made another turn , and another , bringing them in a short time to Southwark Bridge . |
| 2 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 3 | Decisions should also be reached as to whether appointment lists should be displayed in the school and parents invited to come in to choose a discussion time or whether staff will decide and write to parents informing them of an allocated time . |
| 4 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 5 | ‘ Is your sister expecting you at a specific time ? ’ asked Penry when they were on the way to Haverfordwest at last . |
| 6 | Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time . |
| 7 | He said the scheme could give confidence to youngsters who were in danger of losing it at a crucial time in their lives through adverse family or other circumstances . |
| 8 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 9 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 10 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 11 | The thing is they wo n't be going shopping , they wo n't be doing anything for a long time and she 's |
| 12 | Finally retrieval is a separate process because of another familiar phenomenon that it is possible to know something , that is it must be in storage , but not actually succeed in retrieving it at a particular time . |
| 13 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 14 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 15 | Life is too short to continue hating anyone for a long time . |