Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to write about the first time I met G.P. |
| 2 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 3 | Is there anybody else please who 's going to live for a long time ? |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 5 | His next-door neighbours , who are getting married at the same time , also booked with Darlington Wedding Cars but they too have changed their booking . |
| 6 | Johnson went to the lavatory — at least , that is presumably what Boswell means when he says , ‘ having retired for a short time ’ — ; and Boswell and Monboddo engaged cordially with each other . |
| 7 | Gp Capt R C Hockey sent Air Mail the excellent photograph of what happened at Kinloss on a dark night in October 1943 when an Anson was approaching to land at the same time — and on the same bit of field — as a Whitley was just starting its take-off run . |
| 8 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 9 | Should we not be suspicious of postmodern critiques of the ‘ subject ’ when they surface at a historical moment when many subjugated people feel themselves coming to voice for the first time … . |
| 10 | Leslie was devastated by the news , having tried for a long time to have a baby . |
| 11 | He fought back the word ‘ sorry ’ , which was threatening to erupt for the third time . |
| 12 | " Your beauty , " ( Miles bit into the toast and crunched it up , managing to smile at the same time ) , " coming so early in the morning , and so on , is totally confusing . |