Example sentences of "[adj] time that [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Hooke urges in his Micrographia that ‘ the science of nature has already too long been made only a work of the brain and fancy : It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things . ’ |
| 2 | Progress was slow , but by the mid-eighteenth century success had been achieved in both methods of calculating longitude : the Greenwich astronomers had worked out the tables for the movements of the moon and an English watchmaker , John Harrison , had made a chronometer that kept such perfect time that it could meet the requirements of any sailor . |
| 3 | I do n't know of any league penalty regarding players not turning up and not letting their opponents know in good time that they will not be playing . |
| 4 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 5 | And because he was only in lodgings , he felt in his spare time that he would come with us if we were visiting lodging houses or something . |
| 6 | I do n't know because I mean a couple of people have changed cos it 's the only time that they can have it . |
| 7 | This was the only time that I can remember such a fatality occurring locally during my lifetime . |
| 8 | The only time that you will hear about it is whe , if you have the television on and you see it happening on the parliament and on your papers . |
| 9 | The other time that they used to sit down together was for a cup of tea or coffee at six in the morning , which was when the man got home , and often as not that was when Boy got home too . |
| 10 | I know somebody , male I might add , who 's so randy the whole time that he ca n't concentrate on anything . |