Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just for once , for p'raps the only time in your life , take a bit of advice from your elders and betters . ’ |
| 2 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 3 | Cooped up in the house like that — stinks of babies the whole time . |
| 4 | In the early history of Rome the only times recognized in the daylight period were sunrise , midday , and sunset . |
| 5 | Nick , do you remember what I told you about Oliver a long time ago ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With CMAC the waiting time is n't that long either . ’ |
| 10 | At that , I was silent with mistrust a long time . |
| 11 | The look on Martin Bean 's face stayed with Nick a long time . |
| 12 | Then he said quickly , for the first time sounding awkward , " You have been with Jasper a long time , have n't you ? " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | At the same time , socialists do not like being reminded of their own dismal record when in government a long time ago . |
| 19 | Philip hoped Uncle Walter would n't be in hospital a long time . |
| 20 | She knew he would be in hospital a long time and wondered how they would manage if he ever came home . |
| 21 | Two Catholic workmen lay dead , two more died in hospital a short time later , and another was seriously injured . |
| 22 | Robert Gerard Dalrymple ( 58 ) , a father of six , from Church Road , Rasharkin , died in hospital a short time after the incident . |
| 23 | Mr. Clark had to get a bricklayer to repair the walls that were broken and he complained that although the schoolmaster was in attendance the whole time , the boys had made it worse than it was before . |
| 24 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 25 | In fact the only time we see unbedded sediments , apart from comparatively small thicknesses of in situ reef development , we can almost always find evidence of the destruction of the bedding planes by recrystallisation or by the burrowing activity of organisms . |
| 26 | It will mainly be because they have been in office a long time , and because of the recession . |
| 27 | They go with the will of the people and the will of the people is to go along with the President , I 've been in politics a long time . |
| 28 | In my biology lessons at school we were told that humans are the only mammals available for sex the whole time . |
| 29 | But most male mammals are ready for sex the whole time . |
| 30 | That was possible ; after all , the brothers had spent their childhood and youth at Trebyan ; perhaps for Alfred the only time of happiness he had known . |