Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes swivelled crazily about one last time before settling back into place . |
| 2 | You keep it on for all that time ? |
| 3 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 4 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |
| 5 | Judging by the thickness of the file in front of me we are going to be working together for some little time yet . |
| 6 | Conversely , in South Tyneside , they had candidates in 13 wards in 1986 but only in nine this time . |
| 7 | Apparently at this particular time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road in question and traffic from one direction had halted in order to allow that the young girl and her friend to cross the road they began to cross on the zebra crossing but , as she reached the centre of the road Mrs was driving her vehicle in the opposite direction and she failed to stop the young girl , in her teens , was unable to take , avoiding acci action and she was knocked down as she crossed the road . |
| 8 | It was deeply appreciated , especially at this difficult time . |
| 9 | She need not rely for her sense of identity upon outward appearance ; she may in fact look beautiful , she may look a mess ; it does not matter greatly at that particular time . |
| 10 | It will be sufficient if the level of agreement in conviction is high enough at any given time to allow debate over fundamental practices like legislation and precedent to proceed in the way I described in Chapter 2 , contesting discrete paradigms one by one , like the reconstruction of Neurath 's boat one plank at a time at sea . |
| 11 | In the second and third years … drama , dance and music are taught together , but with three staff timetabled ; so at any one time we split the groups up we 've got group numbers of about 20 — three staff between two forms — and they 'll say work in drama on a theme for six weeks , then move on and explore that theme in music , then move on and explore that in dance . |
| 12 | How many actual people in at any given time . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the club seems incapable of deciding which one it is in at any given time . |
| 14 | The diaphragm and spermicide can be put in at any convenient time up to three hours before making love so it need n't interfere at all with intercourse . |
| 15 | Not now , not after all this time . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't see how it can help , not after all this time , ’ she agreed shakily . |
| 17 | not after all this time , he 's probably calmed down now , but er if , if our mum and dad give me anything she takes the hump , but mum and dad can give Margaret anything and it does not bother me |
| 18 | She 'd half expected him to barge past her , just like that other time , and she 'd resolved to set about him with her fists if he tried . |
| 19 | Then , without the slightest warning , just like that first time so many months before , Karen jumped me . |
| 20 | But he woke in the small hours and found her in his arms , just like that first time in the studio at Westfield Manor . |
| 21 | It is not the certificate as such that we wish to include but the underlying deposit , which is a time deposit just like all other time deposits that appear in such definitions . |
| 22 | But just at this particular time we 've got a lot of residents with Zimmer frames and they really just are n't steady enough without one of the care staff going across with them , which does happen . |
| 23 | Not in any other place , not at any other time . |
| 24 | This is certainly a more plausible general background to the revolt but it does not explain why Eleanor rebelled in 1173 and not at any other time . |
| 25 | But the teenager is likely to need the reassurance and loving security of the familiar home and parents more than ever during this traumatic time . |
| 26 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 27 | Not many miles away , two estates meet , between Wootton and Steeple Barton , precisely where they met in a charter dated 958 , and possibly for some considerable time before that . |
| 28 | I 'm off fer good this time . |
| 29 | It seems strange to think I 'm going back home after all this time . |
| 30 | But something is still needed to explain Nietzsche 's willingness to commit himself so totally at this particular time ; and the November meeting , usually taken to be the cause , can not by itself have been sufficient . |