Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction . |
| 2 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
| 3 | The big guy hit me just the one time . |
| 4 | The young KGB girl , who only a short time earlier had been the eager recipient of General Vashinov 's favours , smiled at Duncan . |
| 5 | With the abandonment of sectarian politics and the adoption of the popular front strategy , he was forced to relinquish the tactics of undifferentiated confrontation and engage instead in a complex ideological process in which unequivocal condemnation of the agents of fascism was interspersed with sophisticated and complex support for a wide range of liberal fellow-travellers who only a short time previously would have been roundly condemned as class enemies . |
| 6 | Trouble is , they 'll expect to see you here the next time they come . ’ |
| 7 | Did it take you quite a long time to get to sleep ? |
| 8 | At least , this human being loyally follows me around the place , keeps tabs on me and rings me up the whole time . |
| 9 | You will then need to go through all your entries to edit out your wrong spellings and inconsistencies since it is unlikely that you will have transcribed everything perfectly the first time . |
| 10 | Maid said : ‘ Is there ever a good time ? |
| 11 | Halfway along the path , I lift her up a second time . |
| 12 | Her drenched hair stranded her face , her pale lilac dress clung to her body , her eyelashes divided like a starfish as he pulled her out a second time . |
| 13 | It took her quite a long time to understand what had occurred and what she had done wrong . |
| 14 | It took me quite a long time to get over it . |
| 15 | It took me quite a long time . |
| 16 | Chairman , if they are recorded all later , it took me quite a long time to discover them , could we have , abbreviations just written out , it makes it very difficult for me to , I 'm not used , I mean , I 'm |
| 17 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 18 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 19 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 20 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 21 | Do you have to reti pack it up a certain time ? |
| 22 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 23 | You 've had it quite a long time have n't you ? |
| 24 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | ‘ Why could n't you say it quietly the first time ? |
| 26 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 27 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |