Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 2 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It seemed a long time before the railway lines began to shake , and they heard the train coming . |
| 7 | It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles . |
| 8 | It seemed a long time before footsteps came along the hall , the door was pushed wider and Guy appeared with an armful of logs . |
| 9 | Sheila 's havin' a good time and she 's getting a bit of money too . |
| 10 | They were principally used on board ship to measure its speed by counting the number of knots paid out on a line tied to a log floating astern , while the sand-glass measured a given time that was usually half a minute . |
| 11 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 12 | David 's been a really good friend to me , and he 's had a tough time because of it . |
| 13 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 14 | ‘ She said she had had a wonderful time and liked the people of Merseyside , so I hope this unfortunate incident does n't remain in her mind . ’ |
| 15 | She 's had a bad time and no mistake . ’ |
| 16 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 17 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 18 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 19 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 20 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 21 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |
| 22 | It seemed bizarre that a band plagued by such huge problems on an international scale should wish to waste their time attempting to sue a small time and , to be frank , penniless magazine . |
| 23 | Hard disks last a long time but they do n't last for ever . |
| 24 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 25 | Sage , rosemary and lavender need no visual description , though it is not always realized that sage has spikes of vividly blue-mauve flowers which last a long time and are highly magnetic to bees . |
| 26 | The stitching takes a long time and hurts Stig a lot more than it hurts the rest of us . |
| 27 | This takes a long time and is reflected in the price of the product . |
| 28 | Hyperactive children may ‘ grow out of it ’ in time , but this takes a long time and their behaviour tends to get worse before it gets better . |
| 29 | The legal process takes a long time and the task of getting new Regulations approved remained incomplete when I retired . |
| 30 | But this takes a long time and a lot of convincing . |