Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 2 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 3 | So , Slon , how do you feel about Zagrat , looking back from the freak time ? ’ asked the bimbo interviewer . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 5 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 6 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 7 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 8 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 9 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 10 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 11 | There followed the annus mirabilis of 1889 during which , on Wilson 's later estimate , 130,000 members were enrolled in branches at 45 ports , a number representing , net of officers , engineers , cooks and stewards , " almost the whole of the seamen in the British mercantile marine " , though , he added with unusual candour , " it is true that they are not all paying up at the present time " , partly , it seems , because of the union 's policy of issuing " privilege tickets " involving no entry money or contributions until members could afford to pay . |
| 12 | Hill was annoyed at not grabbing pole in the final qualifying session but said : ‘ I lost out in the traffic by going out at the wrong time . |
| 13 | I 'm going abroad for a short time … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 15 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 16 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 17 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 18 | Shrouded in snow and shivering with cold , I arrive at the door of the friary , and after calling out for a long time , the brother porter gets up and asks : ‘ Who is it ? ’ |
| 19 | It takes perverse joy in getting hard at the wrong time , causing its owner no end of embarrassment and inconvenience . |
| 20 | We knew we were moving abroad at an interesting time in world history , but we did n't realize we 'd get to watch the apocalypse from here . |
| 21 | we 're getting there at the right time |
| 22 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 23 | Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking . |
| 24 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 25 | I mean they , they both firmly saying they 're coming back on a full time basis , |
| 26 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 27 | It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness . |
| 28 | Sometimes , however , they prefer not to appear to be opposed , claiming to be generally sympathetic to the proposal , differing only on the appropriate time to bring it forward . |
| 29 | He was the first Roman Catholic director-general of the BBC , taking over at a difficult time , when the Ulster issue was posing serious dilemmas for broadcasters as well as for politicians . |
| 30 | So you were in in mourning just like the whole time . |