Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations . |
| 2 | I loved him , as much as an alien can entertain love for a being on a green planet where she knows she has only a certain time . |
| 3 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 4 | Its very upsetting in more ways than one and an awkward time for a change of priests so Fr John will want just a little time to settle in and feel at home . |
| 5 | A spokesman for Hampshire police said : ‘ It seems Mrs Soper died and then her husband passed away a short time later . |
| 6 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 7 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 8 | In the field it is difficult to be exact when filling so the burning time of the tank will vary . |
| 9 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 10 | I do n't mind but that getting a like when Shirl first came she was to get everything done exactly the same time |
| 11 | Some students find it best to set aside a regular time each week ( perhaps at the weekend ) to file all the notes taken during the previous week . |
| 12 | Literally speaking , ephemera are things that last only a day ; in the more accepted sense , things destined to endure only a short time ; but , by a curious paradox , in the most modern sense , things which have , in fact , long survived their predestined span . |
| 13 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 14 | The XVIth triennial General Conference of International Council of Museums ( ICOM ) will take place in Quebec City ( 19–26 September ) , marking only the second time in its forty-six year history that the group has met in North America . |
| 15 | If it is run twice on similar data , it will probably work better the second time . |
| 16 | Usually he can spend only a limited time at one session in the tasting room as his work involves so much keen concentration . |
| 17 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 18 | So court dominates St Aldate 's throughout the war , and I think therefore we should spend just a little time looking at the people involved , erm but not too much . |
| 19 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 20 | He will spend almost the entire time in an isolation cubicle within the unit 's small ward until the new bone marrow becomes effective . |
| 21 | Rhys will spend almost the entire time in an isolation cubicle within the unit 's small ward until the new bone marrow becomes effective . |
| 22 | She could remember vividly the first time she had tried dope , the day that she had found out about her mother 's affair from one of her classmates . |
| 23 | To chuck away the big time for a day out at Wembley would be a shame . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've often watched you in the past and wondered how you know exactly the right time to enter the bidding , the right time to leave , ’ Moran praised . |
| 25 | You know like the last time |
| 26 | Set aside a little time to make this cake , as it is quite time-consuming . |
| 27 | I remember clearly the first time he played our first single . |
| 28 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 29 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 30 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |