Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been asleep a long time . ’ |
| 2 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 3 | It 's been such a long time . |
| 4 | I do n't know whether I ever meant to call on Ben or not — it 's been such a long time — but I was interested to see the boat . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been such a long time ! |
| 6 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's been such a long time since you 've seen him . |
| 8 | It 's been such a long time , too long … ’ |
| 9 | And it had all been such a long time ago ! |
| 10 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |
| 11 | It had been such a confusing time for her — the quarrel with Stephen and her mother 's death following so closely . |
| 12 | And what you do is you do it , and you get it wrong , and you , you miss it , and then you do it again and you 're better the next time and you get in . |
| 13 | What if you camp on to somebody and then their phone becomes free , and this starts ringing , and by the time you 've picked it up and answered it , they 've made another outgoing call , so they 're busy a second time ? |
| 14 | The Swiss crew was stroked by Jeremy West , the French crew included East German veteran Rudi Helm , the USSR/Italian team included masters Schaparenko and Tichenko and there was a USSR/Israeli crew , something which would have been unthinkable a short time before . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been patient a long time , nonya . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He 'd been ill a long time . |
| 17 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 18 | I must have been unconscious a long time . |
| 19 | But when you first started when you 're not quite sure what 's happening you ca n't be expected to be perfect the first time you have a go at something can you . |
| 20 | It may be alarmed the first time a bit is put in its mouth , or saddle is put on its back , or it 's girthed up , or mounted , but this anxiety can be ‘ undone ’ or prevented altogether by making sure that the horse is not hurt and by rewarding the horse at the same time . |
| 21 | The Trisland has to be hand-flown the whole time . |
| 22 | Worse , he told her that naturally he never used the lifts because if one were faulty he could be stuck a long time with no one to free him . |
| 23 | Yeah Eddie is going to be busy the whole time |
| 24 | Jackets that had been second-hand a long time ago , trousers the same . |
| 25 | So is that the first time you 've done that new , that song today |
| 26 | Is that the first time you 've done that song ? |
| 27 | Is that the right time , twelve o'clock ? |
| 28 | Is this a good time to invest with them ? |
| 29 | I 'll give you lots of support — Helen : Is this a good time for you to do this , though ? |
| 30 | would she be able to is this a full time worker you 've got ? |