Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was a difficult time for most people not everyone was distraught . |
| 2 | He had keen eyes and quick hands , so it was a long time before he got caught . |
| 3 | The only cloud on the immediate horizon is raising a mortgage — especially if you are a first time buyer . |
| 4 | Lying on her bed , trying to read a book , she watched the time tick round until it was a reasonable time to get undressed and try to sleep . |
| 5 | Oh just until they were dry maybe if it was a grand time of wind , maybe say three days . |
| 6 | The er secretary went because he was a full time official . |
| 7 | Because it 's a long time since I felt like this , as good as I do now . |
| 8 | Erm I mean he it sort of went through our staff inspector wise and er Paul was sort of chatting , and he was n't being unkind he said yes , they 'll be dinosaurs because it 's a long time since you 've had er any training like that . |
| 9 | Ma maybe twenty nine , even thirty , depending , but if it er , mind you I do n't know , because it 's a long time since I had a look at 'em . |
| 10 | The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn cart because it was a long time before a motor hearse became available . |
| 11 | They sat together , in the small-sized chairs brought up by Balor , and ate their breakfasts and told one another was n't this the finest meal ever and would they all look at the roasting oxen , because it was a long time , well it was years , really , since any of them had seen such a sight . |
| 12 | Maybe it was because it was a first time and she was n't going to be a good mother , like some humans . |
| 13 | So when we say we want the laws of physics perhaps to stay constant in time , when we observe these objects a long way away we 're observing the laws of physics as they were a long time ago . |
| 14 | Do you eat when it is a certain time , or do you eat when you are hungry ? |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll be in touch , ’ he said vaguely and though it was a long time before she would admit it to herself Sally knew it was all over . |
| 16 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
| 17 | When we see a distant galaxy we 're not seeing it as it is today , we 're seeing it as it was a long time ago . |
| 18 | This savage day , and he thought , inexplicably , for it was a long time ago — he had thought to have forgotten it — of a boy who was swallowed in a sewer . |