Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of each week , which we suggest is a Saturday , you will need a little extra time to review your progress , and work out your weight loss for that week . |
| 2 | However desirable this might be , in a highly complex and differentiated society such as ours this undertaking would need a very long time given our present methods , resources and interests . |
| 3 | And promised a really good time . |
| 4 | The only reason for not beginning your diary straight away is if the next seven to ten days covers a really unusual time , for example your annual holiday , or a bout of sickness , or Christmas and New Year . |
| 5 | It 's hard enough trying to find a mutually convenient time for two people to meet ; comparing diaries for a group can be nearly impossible . |
| 6 | All my subsequent attempts to find a mutually convenient time to meet have failed — mostly , I have to confess , because my term-time commitments in Oxford made it difficult for me get up to London except at hours when you were in Cabinet , or in the House . |
| 7 | → When you think of Fender 's seeming unwillingness to bring the reissues of the Indie-cred Jaguar into this country , Jim , I think we 'll probably wait a very long time before a Bass VI emanates from anywhere other than the Fender Custom Shop — a facility available to the wad-carrying fanatic . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll wait a very long time to do that , ’ he gritted . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've picked a fucking good time to pay people a visit ! ’ |
| 10 | With one or two notable exceptions , among them Tchaikovsky 's First String Quartet and Piano Trio , and Borodin 's two quarters , 19th century Russian chamber music has a pretty thin time of it . |
| 11 | It is quite clear that in any examination the examiner has a very short time to spend on any individual question . |
| 12 | One youngster told him : ‘ Everyone has a really good time . |
| 13 | Monsieur Mitterand has already said that he 's going to seek to drive a harder bargain with Britain over fishing limits even than President Giscard was trying to do , and I think our negotiators must expect a rather tough time as far as fisheries are concerned . |
| 14 | Yeah he done a real good time |
| 15 | ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago . |
| 16 | ‘ For a long time , ’ he says , ‘ the king acted on the advice of William of Montague , who always encouraged him to excellence , honour , and love of arms : and so they led their young lives in pleasant fashion , until there came a more serious time with more serious matters . ’ |
| 17 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 18 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 19 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 20 | I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time . |
| 21 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 22 | We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time . |
| 23 | In what seemed a very short time the plane began to come down and bits of northern Italy could be seen below . |
| 24 | Thus it would seem that the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ , so often quoted in a context suggesting that it represents a fairly finite occurrence taking a relatively short space of time , did , in all probability cover a very long time indeed , perhaps many thousands of years . |
| 25 | Her mother had died a very short time ago , in reality , and Jenna had been more than capable of dealing with her own well-being . |
| 26 | We can assume that in a normal working session a lexicographer will spend a relatively long time thinking as opposed to manipulating text . |
| 27 | You could spend a very long time , trying to understand that woman . " |
| 28 | They seem a very long time ago now . |
| 29 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 30 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |