Example sentences of "[vb base] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want a good time , do n't you — with the flesh-pots of Egypt thrown in ! |
| 2 | The , councillor I am not passionate about getting rid of union representation , what I am passionate about is union members paying for their own representation , not me , not the people out there , if they want a full time union official let them pay for it but do n't expect other people to pick up the bill , it 's ludicrous er to er put that sort of money in our budget . |
| 3 | The G M B and other unions , but principally the G M B cos that 's one I 'm concerned about , needs to pressurize councillors and officers because councillors and officers have been bombarded with almost as much legislation as the trade unions have had from the Tory government and most of them actually just want an easy time , so you 've got to hassle them , you got to harass them what they do . |
| 4 | Mealtimes provide an ideal time to use your pet 's name in order to attract its attention . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | The quantitative details of classical electromagnetism yield an estimated time of about 10 -8 seconds for this collapse to occur . |
| 9 | But if they nevertheless persist in making that perambulation in the manner aforesaid , we must endure it for the present , and await an opportune time to amend it . |
| 10 | There are others who are not too worried about that , but who crave a good time . |
| 11 | Troops face a tough time from bandits and war lords . |
| 12 | And I mean a long time ! ’ |
| 13 | Even though I make fun of it , and it 's not my favourite music , that does n't mean that it 's less valid than bands who last a long time , especially if it is enjoyed . |
| 14 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 15 | Pro Arte brushes have lovely points which last a long time . |
| 16 | Hard disks last a long time but they do n't last for ever . |
| 17 | Sage , rosemary and lavender need no visual description , though it is not always realized that sage has spikes of vividly blue-mauve flowers which last a long time and are highly magnetic to bees . |
| 18 | " I know a long time . |
| 19 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |
| 20 | You know a long time , a long time . |
| 21 | I mean that could be a short term until she could get herself you know a full time regular post |
| 22 | Get a new time then you 're alright if you get a new time . |
| 23 | Get a new time then you 're alright if you get a new time . |
| 24 | Say from one till ten cos they 're the early ones and then they get a certain time , then your numbers eleven to twenty |
| 25 | Women who have done things to children get a bad time inside if the other women know and can get hold of them . |
| 26 | But does their mother think they get a hard time at school from the locals ? |
| 27 | Assume an infinite time horizon and equate C s with the coefficient of z in ( 7 ) . |
| 28 | All moot court judges may and should give counsel a hot time by interjecting questions and objections to his argument . |
| 29 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 30 | Even Mr Fraser of Neill 's , a source of many choice quotations on this issue had to admit that not all the women got married : " there are some who stay a long time . |