Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tenacious and long-memoried , they had not allowed themselves to be uprooted or changed a second time . |
| 2 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 3 | Historical events that happened a long time ago . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't see the relevance of something that happened a long time ago . |
| 5 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 6 | It was one of those accidents that took a long time to begin to feel serious . |
| 7 | And that took a long time getting used to . |
| 8 | You then work with your dog the whole time and all the time you 're working with your dog , naturally enough , it 's a young dog , so you 're being tested and evaluated the whole time , so your training continues . |
| 9 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 10 | After they have turned round under gravity and interacted a second time with the microwaves , the fraction of atoms in the F=4 level is detected and recorded . |
| 11 | He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty . |
| 12 | If the gallery outside the silver door had hummed and quivered and thrown out heat before , now the sensations were magnified and multiplied a hundred times as Calatin set the Silver Looms to harness the power of the sorcerer . |
| 13 | ’ ‘ ard to bruise a ‘ tato , but even ‘ arder to sell a bunch of grapes that 's been picked up and dropped a few times . ’ |
| 14 | But this , as he would say , is a long story , and happened a long time ago . |
| 15 | These techniques allow the anisotropic parameters to be estimated more reliably and computed a hundred times as fast as previously . |
| 16 | No one likes to be outsmarted , and the man who loses out once will be that much more aggressive and determined the next time , although others may react by refusing to deal with those that they do n't know and trust . |
| 17 | It would have been inconsiderate , and the possibility was not discussed , although Groa , moving from hall to hall with her husband , took the chance to pack a few extra boxes with thick clothes and blankets , and spent a little time during her last call at Orphir studying the crucifix Bishop Jon had pinned over her bed and wondering whether or not it would be Christian to pray for a wind . |
| 18 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 19 | They started in the Fabric Hall , and spent a long time fingering various swathes of cloth . |
| 20 | And so Willi was squeezing himself into his best suit , the one he wore for daytime ceremonial occasions , and had spattered himself lavishly with aftershave cologne , and spent a long time arranging the frill of curls round his bald crown . |
| 21 | The 19-year-old Boat Club starlet was struck down by glandular fever last summer , and spent a frustrating time on the sidelines . |
| 22 | He graduated in 1940 and spent a short time at Pennsylvania State University before returning to UCLA to do his PhD . |
| 23 | He has therefore used local newspaper cuttings as well photographs and spent a considerable time talking to some of the senior members of the club to produce the book . |
| 24 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
| 25 | They have done a little bit of redecorating , such as in the hallway where they put up a pretty floral paper with a wide matching border at dado level , and hung an original time recorder clock , made in Leeds and bought from an antique shop in Leigh-on-Sea . |
| 26 | He swayed and teetered a few times , and there were gasps from the onlookers . |
| 27 | He opened his own salon in 1923 and hit the big time in 1935 , when he designed the wedding dress for the Duchess of Gloucester . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't pick Davis , we chose each other and decided a long time ago that we wanted to play this tournament together . |
| 29 | Of the rest Matthew Cooper played as a fledgling in the All Blacks ' scamper through Japan in 1987 ; Jon Preston had one game in the World Cup last year ; Kevin Schuler appeared briefly as a replacement in France in 1990 ; and Graham Dowd had been the reserve hooker for the World Cup and the home series against the World XV and managed a short time on the field when Richard Loe was injured in the second half of the First Test against Ireland . |
| 30 | She decided that she would make a phone call just to check that Jenny had left home and knew the right time of her arrival . |