Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , we have to assign to each level a peculiar time , relatively autonomous and hence relatively independent , even in its dependence , of the ‘ times ’ of the other levels … |
| 2 | These were the people Wesley had come to Cornwall to save , to rescue from the devil and , by all accounts , they had given the old campaigner a hard time of it . |
| 3 | The princess told them : ‘ I have come to terms with this relationship a long time ago . |
| 4 | The Nicholson racing team from Temple Guting are really galloping away … on Saturday Waterloo Boy was a winner again … at Hereford this afternoon they were first past the post with Barrica … that 's seventy winners this season an all time personal best … |
| 5 | Be that as it may , the local kids gave that poor old man a helluva time . |
| 6 | ‘ I have lived in this world a long time , child . |
| 7 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 8 | Conversely , warm weather , convivial surroundings and sexual activity a short time before measurement will all temporarily increase the resting size of the organ . |
| 9 | In January 1645 she taunted the Presbyterian polemicist a second time in A New-Yeares-Gift … to Mr. Thomas Edwards . |
| 10 | They can delay a bill for a year by forcing the Commons to pass the rejected bill a second time in the following session . |
| 11 | But I found out his real secret a long time ago . |
| 12 | I just loathe the thought of telling my nasty little tale a second time . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I knew someone of that name a long time ago . |
| 14 | Just as well they have something else in common : they have known each other a long time , and are all good friends . |
| 15 | We 'd known each other a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've known each other a long time . |
| 17 | We 've known each other a long time . |
| 18 | We 're growing familiar , like we 've known each other a long time . |
| 19 | You and I have known each other a long time . |
| 20 | In Safar 989/March 1581 he became Rumeli kazasker a second time , and , on 26 Dhu " l-Hijja of the same year ( 21 January 1582 ) , he became Mufti , in which post he remained until his death on 28 Jumada I 995/6 May 1587 . |
| 21 | This seems to indicate that the rock was of sacred significance a long time before Augustine visited . |
| 22 | This then inevitably means that by the early spring it is worth working the same ground a second time . |
| 23 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 24 | It should be remembered , of course , that quite often a man who deserted would rejoin the same army a short time later in a different unit , perhaps under another name , to gain a new enlistment bounty . |
| 25 | , Abraham ( c. 1793–1860 ) , bricklayer and the last man subjected to an ‘ appeal of murder ’ , by which a person acquitted of murder could be tried for the same offence a second time , was born c .1793 , the son of a Castle Bromwich builder . |
| 26 | But if he borrows the same amount a second time he becomes liable to a second charge . |
| 27 | It had been , Flaubert told her son after her funeral in 1876 , as if he had been forced to bury his own mother a second time . |
| 28 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
| 29 | ‘ He bailed my father out of some financial difficulty a long time ago , ’ he said shortly . |
| 30 | Most private owners discovered the use of a tail and wing-tip dolly a long time ago , making it possible to tow out with a car single-handedly on most days . |