Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone might , anyone could , anyone would be welcome for a time or half a time . |
| 2 | He had probably told her a lie of one sort or another every time they met . |
| 3 | Thinking about food between meals , after meals or all the time predisposes snacking behaviour and overeating . |
| 4 | However , he does not have this negative interpretation of all events or all the time — otherwise he would be permanently depressed . |
| 5 | In the vision of the Four Beasts in chapter 7 , Antiochus " changes the seasons and the law " and his rule will last " a time and times and half a time " ( 7.25 ) : perhaps three years and a half . |
| 6 | As the Temple was desecrated , according to the most probable chronology , about December 1 67 and reconsecrated about December 164 , we must take it that the correct interpretation of Daniel is the latter , amounting to about three years , which is in rough agreement with the " time , times and half a time " of the previous chapter . |
| 7 | Finally , the time of persecution is stated again to be " a time , times and half a time " ( 12.7 ) , that is three years and a half , in the vision of the two angels which concludes the book . |
| 8 | More than just that shop where you go in you can go all round and wander round and you do n't see anybody only filling the shelves up and half the time they do n't even , ca n't even advise you where to go can they you know . |
| 9 | And half the time |
| 10 | He 'd tell me things there , and I 'd get so excited about whatever he said was going to happen , and half the time he 'd just made it up . ’ |
| 11 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 12 | He probably will have six later on , if he gets it off , but the thing is , I mean , he 'll need somebody to drive wagons round yard , and half the time , y you know , he 'll be sat doing nothing , scratching his nose . |
| 13 | I mean , it 's not as nice a pint as now that Whitbread 's have taken over and half the time . |
| 14 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 15 | He 's going to give a price and somebody else is going to give a price in competition , and half the time if he 's lucky he 'll get the jobs . |
| 16 | Parts were always going wrong , and half the time computers were out of action as technicians laboriously tried to find and remedy faults . |
| 17 | I came out of the station , having had my break and was putting it into my notebook — ‘ refreshments at such-and-such a time , leave such- and such a time ’ . |
| 18 | You 'd get a message from the R T O the er Railway Transport Office to say supply three hundred and sixty cups of tea at such and such a time and then of course the troops would the train would start , the troops pour out and pour into our place and there we were dashing around . |
| 19 | Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step |
| 20 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
| 21 | which is the excuse , I 'd rather somebody went along sort of said right I 'll have it done such and such a time rather than keep buggering about |
| 22 | If nothing happens by such and such a time , then we shall have to do something else . |
| 23 | But I would like to say to you that in my view , and in the view of the organisation I represent , Phoenix Trust , by and large the time is long past for analysis . |
| 24 | Social life based on this condition can hardly be favourable to older people , and the more turbulent and anarchical the times , the worse their condition and status has been . |
| 25 | I knew the first time was seldom ideal and I wanted to get past it to the second and third times , and all the times after that , when our love could go forward and mature and develop . |
| 26 | And all the time I 'm taking further steps away . |
| 27 | And all the time , I was working away until midnight preparing the juices . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And I thought it was those rats or my silly old brain and all the time it was you , young man . ’ |
| 29 | And all the time he had been asking ‘ When can I go home ? ’ |
| 30 | And all the time , in this turmoil of sexual ambiguities , we were talking about words , about poetry . |