Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 2 | Local officials said that the move could result in the police and army being used locally for the first time , but reflected members ' anger and frustration . |
| 3 | The Green Party won representation locally for the first time with 14 seats ; and Sinn Féin won seven seats ( 10 in 1985 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted . |
| 5 | Summerchild and Serafin had met , presumably for the first time , on March 7th . |
| 6 | Not only did they bring stretches of water into country often lacking in them , as in many parts of the Midlands , with consequent changes in bird and plant life , but they also brought — mostly for the first time — aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , tunnels , locks , lifts and inclined planes , and many attractive bridges , and they greatly influenced the growth and appearance of many towns . |
| 7 | THE first Norwegian whalers have put to sea to hunt commercially for the first time since 1987 in defiance of a global moratorium . |
| 8 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 9 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 10 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 11 | You gaze at each other properly for the first time . |
| 12 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 13 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 14 | Sighing , she swivelled round , looking at the cabin properly for the first time . |
| 15 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 16 | Morse looked at her now — perhaps properly for the first time . |
| 17 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 18 | A REVOLUTIONARY new Siberian surgery technique could help people in Teesside suffering from bone problems walk properly for the first time . |
| 19 | A new theory linking familiarity , complexity , and liking for two special classes of objects will be tested rigorously for the first time . |
| 20 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 21 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 22 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 23 | The extension of the theatre of war to south-eastern Europe had , despite the German triumph , led to increased concern that the war could now drag on for a long time . |
| 24 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 25 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 26 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 27 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 28 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 29 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 30 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |