Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] time [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | photocopied the same time as these and then you know we would have all had one for reference . |
| 2 | The poison develops a little time after the leaf has sprouted , so the monkeys can avoid the worst of it if they eat only the youngest leaves . |
| 3 | A bird kept in captivity is fed all year round , so obviously it has an easier time than one in the wild which has to feed itself whatever the season , but it still has the hunting instinct . |
| 4 | He is playing , passing the tedious time while there 's virtually no fighting and very little manoeuvring and while he wants none , but is uneasy being still . |
| 5 | Tonight , social services said nothing was done the first time because nobody believed the complaints . |
| 6 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 7 | I mean they were bright green , and I thought it was a different bike , I did n't even noticed the second time if it was a ladies or a man 's bike . |
| 8 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 9 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |
| 10 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 11 | It seemed a long time since the small breakfast that was served in Spain , and in the end Felipe put a portion of each on her plate . |
| 12 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 13 | It seemed a long time before the railway lines began to shake , and they heard the train coming . |
| 14 | It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles . |
| 15 | It seemed a long time before footsteps came along the hall , the door was pushed wider and Guy appeared with an armful of logs . |
| 16 | It has been held under an equivalent section in England that , an adjournment having once been allowed on the ground that some requirement was not complied with , the justices had no power to adjourn a second time because another irregularity had occurred : R. v. Poole JJ. [ 1951 ] 2 T.L.R. 261 . |
| 17 | It 'll run the same time as the Metro . |
| 18 | The tourists anticipate a harder time than recent evidence in Welsh and Irish rugby might have suggested to them . |
| 19 | The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
| 20 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 21 | David 's been a really good friend to me , and he 's had a tough time because of it . |
| 22 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 23 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 24 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 25 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 26 | She stopped singing when he knocked on the door , but he had to wait and knock a second time before she invited him in . |
| 27 | In all election campaigns , incumbent governments are going to be given a harder time than the Opposition . |
| 28 | These are no good for trying to implant a second time because the wood is a year older and much less likely to ‘ take ’ . |
| 29 | and you know the first time since we 've been married I 've been able to actually cook a roast dinner and washed up by two o'clock on |
| 30 | Boots ( retail division ) also gives a guarantee to employees moving a second time if property prices are rising . |