Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sing the chorus together a second time . |
| 2 | ‘ He died of a stroke only a short time after Mamma left him . ’ |
| 3 | Richard Cunningham , a botanist who had been trained at Kew by William Townsend Aiton , elder brother of John Townsend Aiton ( who had trained Gould as a gardener at Windsor Castle ) had been murdered by Aborigines only a short time before Gould 's departure while collecting on an expedition along the Murray River . |
| 4 | ‘ It takes most soaps quite a long time to establish themselves in the favour of the audience . |
| 5 | He was removed from that medrese and then became muderris there a second time " with the condition that it should be included among the and that his should become in his [ proper ] time in accordance with the custom in similar medreses ' . |
| 6 | Getting the paper work right the first time saves the customer being bothered with further questions . |
| 7 | It took Corps rather a long time to adjust , I believe . |
| 8 | Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ? |
| 9 | The arrival of the police to her Well Street home a short time later started the nightmare which continues for Joan even today . |
| 10 | It took place quite a long time ago , it is known as the cessation of the plebs there were two occasions on which the workers of of Ancient Rome and withdrew from the city and their t the terms on which as as far as I recollect the terms of their return where that somebody should write down the law in comprehensible terms and that there should be a special officer , a tribune appointed who could if necessary explain what the law was to them . |
| 11 | Cos we had this mat there a long time and I think we picked . |
| 12 | Post-interviews with the individual pupils should take place either a short time after the end of the teaching episode , or ( less favourably ) at the end of the lesson . |
| 13 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 14 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 15 | And bloody things here the whole time , these cockles were everywhere they were we liked them , the boys did , aye . |
| 16 | In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed . |
| 17 | Radio was , as we have seen , put under direct Government control only a short time after independence . |
| 18 | And she used to go with the district nurses a lot to er to treat different people specially a long time I remember erm a young man erm h he had er I think it was cerebral palsy he had and er he was so fed up with himself he threw paraffin over himself and er set light you know on the top of the stairs and threw himself down . |
| 19 | The cat was halfway up the tree , and it took Virginia quite a long time to reach it . |
| 20 | The wet plaster smell and the white dust on the cobbles underfoot indicated that rubble had been cleared from the yard only a short time before . |
| 21 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 22 | The ‘ Illustrious ’ had been subjected to vicious bombing only a short time previously , and the defending fighters had been battered by swarms of Me109s and Macchis . |
| 23 | since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work . |
| 24 | After a confident start United took the lead in the 17th minute when the elusive Thornley centred for Butt to rifle home a first time shot . |
| 25 | It 's probable they will come back , but if they do they 'll have to bid an awful lot more a second time |
| 26 | Secretary , who stayed in office only a short time before handing over to James Muir , who served until 1905 . |
| 27 | For although Red Rum went on to win two more Grand Nationals in 1974 and 1977 ( and to finish second in the intervening years of 1975 and 1976 ) , and although Crisp beat Red Rum easily the next time they met , there has never been a big race which a beaten horse so deserved to win . |
| 28 | Yeah , the hands , no structure , did you notice he hardly ever looked at the magistrate , although yeah his voice projection was still good because he 's an experienced advocate , but he was talking to the table nearly the whole time . |
| 29 | Consequently , you fall over or jack-knife forwards the first time you land heavily . |
| 30 | If there is more than one child in the family then a special time each is valuable . |