Example sentences of "and [verb] a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small generator can be used primarily to stop a battery discharging and it will only be able to recharge a battery if it is small and has a long time in which to do it . |
| 2 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 3 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 4 | The 19-year-old Boat Club starlet was struck down by glandular fever last summer , and spent a frustrating time on the sidelines . |
| 5 | He graduated in 1940 and spent a short time at Pennsylvania State University before returning to UCLA to do his PhD . |
| 6 | All might go well and you might simply relive and re-experience a happy time in your life . |
| 7 | He is absent yet meticulous , paying for a missing drink-shop teaspoon which has nothing to do with him , and spending a long time in the ‘ interesting occupation ’ of trying to catch a fly . |
| 8 | The neighbour told the inquest : ‘ He had the freedom of spending money and having a good time with his friends . |
| 9 | Of the rest Matthew Cooper played as a fledgling in the All Blacks ' scamper through Japan in 1987 ; Jon Preston had one game in the World Cup last year ; Kevin Schuler appeared briefly as a replacement in France in 1990 ; and Graham Dowd had been the reserve hooker for the World Cup and the home series against the World XV and managed a short time on the field when Richard Loe was injured in the second half of the First Test against Ireland . |
| 10 | He raised his eyes from the pattern and stared a long time at my friend and I — the only two white people on the journey . |
| 11 | ‘ We went to Tunisia last year and had a dreadful time on a supposed safari . |
| 12 | I want to take you out , to shop with you , buy you nice presents and have a nice time with you . |
| 13 | ‘ Go and have a swell time at our fancy-dress party . |