Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would n't be an I R A only for internment the last time . |
| 2 | The 23 prospective presidential candidates who had contested the discredited primaries would not be allowed to run for president the next time , and all were banned from political activity for the remainder of the transitional period . |
| 3 | ‘ Just for once , for p'raps the only time in your life , take a bit of advice from your elders and betters . ’ |
| 4 | During practice the best time logged was twenty minutes . |
| 5 | This is by no means the first time that national security has been raised as a defence in legal proceedings against the Crown . |
| 6 | It is by no means the first time that there has been unacceptable , totally unsporting behaviour along such lines in that part of the world . |
| 7 | ‘ Faber would not be for sale even at the right price , ’ commented Matthew Evans a touch wearily — this being by no means the first time he has had to deny such rumours . |
| 8 | She was n't risking that kind of insanity a second time . |
| 9 | Of course the more time available the better . |
| 10 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 11 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 12 | Husameddin is even more specific , writing that Molla Fenari was , on his return , given his old professorship and [ then ( ? ) ] made kadi of Bursa a second time when Molla Yegan Mehmed Celebi ( Molla Yegan ) retired from the post in 818/1415–16 . |
| 13 | Cooped up in the house like that — stinks of babies the whole time . |
| 14 | Nick , do you remember what I told you about Oliver a long time ago ? |
| 15 | Of course , Dorcas thought , as a scientist and rational thinking nome I know we were n't really intended to live under floorboards the whole time . |
| 16 | My friend Kevin , muscleman and minicab driver , says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it was n't tipping down with rain the whole time . |
| 17 | He looked at her doubtfully , as troubled at leaving her with the distressed child as Edna had been at leaving Liza with Celia a short time before . |
| 18 | With CMAC the waiting time is n't that long either . ’ |
| 19 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 20 | At that , I was silent with mistrust a long time . |
| 21 | The look on Martin Bean 's face stayed with Nick a long time . |
| 22 | Then he said quickly , for the first time sounding awkward , " You have been with Jasper a long time , have n't you ? " |
| 23 | If for example the full time officers er negotiated with you know , for a district rate , erm Brothers and , and , and er er or whoever would concede that district rate . |
| 24 | In addition a coarser time scale of LDO occurrence exists ( Fig. 1 ) which may be related to intervals of major global ocean-atmosphere reorganization . |
| 25 | Maybe other irate walkers would bear that in mind the next time they see the army out on an exercise . |
| 26 | The Prince of Wales kissed his wife in public in February the first time in four years as she presented prizes to players in his polo match on their Indian tour . |
| 27 | Kate 's family came over from Ireland a long time ago and their closest contact to the soil is the odd spot of weekend gardening , but Kate associates closely with the dispossessed peasantry of old Ireland , and anywhere else for that matter , and taters brings out the culchie in her . |
| 28 | We have been in business a long time and not being selected by one particular country is not going to have a significant effect on us at all . ’ |
| 29 | If the first retailer has only been in business a short time before the second retailer opens his store then it is unlikely that anything can be done . |
| 30 | ‘ You ca n't sack a man because of his friends , ’ he said forthrightly , ‘ and Caretaker 's family have been in Medewich a long time . |