Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] time [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It was seven o'clock Romanian time when they landed at Otopeni Airport . |
2 | Never mind , perhaps next time when we meet and hopefully we 'll be meeting again in say a fortnight 's time , erm we can set some time aside when you 'll both be here cos I 'm sure she 'll be interested to hear what I 've got to come back and talk about . |
3 | There was just one time when he did . |
4 | One evening , Emily set aside some time when she could be alone . |
5 | Was there ever any time when you just had to accept the fact that the hay would have to be carried in wet ? |
6 | Put it back up and I 'll nail it up some time when I bring up erm , I 'll bring up a hammer |
7 | If you do it properly first time around you 'll know it all the time . |
8 | I saw them here last time when I looked at them . |
9 | Oh well next time when you go just go on the proper date that you should go on |
10 | I think it was also about that time when it was decided to phase our the old term of Customs Waterguard for the uniformed branch , with Waterguard becoming a dirty word . |
11 | Well I mean he was stealing and then , what about that time when I rang the police to say he 's nicking apples out |
12 | ‘ And then another time when I was going through a patch of poor health , I went on a ‘ stone age diet ’ — pure things with no additives and lots of bottled water . |
13 | The first thing to do is to rephrase the question that everyone asks themselves , not ‘ what would I like to grow , what do I want to grow ? ’ but ‘ what do I have space for , and how much time am I prepared to devote to looking after what I plant ? ’ |
14 | Then one time when he was doing some other business with the woman we called Mrs Howard , he sold her the story for a few marks . |
15 | Then one time when I put my hand in my sleeve to bring out the compass , it was n't there . |
16 | alright , maybe next time alright I 'll see you later |
17 | I can remember and I think the rest of us from the Three-Ninetieth can remember when there were very little time when we had it this quiet . |
18 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
19 | A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep . |
20 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
21 | Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions . |
22 | The nuns , Nenna 's nuns , what a very long time ago it seemed , in a class known as plain sewing , had taught her bygone arts , darning , patching , reinforcing collars with tape , which at last found their proper object in Willis 's outmoded garments . |
23 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
24 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |