Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good morning , Doug , I 'm a first time caller . |
| 2 | I was a long time because everyone was gassing in the shop . |
| 3 | Sorry I was a long time I did n't |
| 4 | The only cloud on the immediate horizon is raising a mortgage — especially if you are a first time buyer . |
| 5 | He may yet tour India next winter , for there is a three-month break before the challenge of a calmer series against swing and spin — ‘ You are a long time retired , ’ he says impishly . |
| 6 | He may yet tour India next winter , for there is a three-month break before the challenge of a calmer series against swing and spin — ‘ You are a long time retired , ’ he says impishly . |
| 7 | Campese , who hopes to face the Barbarians at Twickenham on Saturday , is more direct , saying : ‘ I play because I enjoy it and as long as I am enjoying my rugby and I am wanted — well , you are a long time retired . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time . |
| 9 | ‘ After all … you 're a long time retired ’ , he says . |
| 10 | With a first baby you 're a long time , especially with my build . |
| 11 | Webb , 28 , who played for Northern until his medical studies took him to the west country , said : ‘ You 're a long time retired . |
| 12 | Cor you 're a long time coming back from the Rose and Crown , do n't forget that 's where we were |
| 13 | ‘ You were a long time coming to bed . ’ |
| 14 | Yes she is a full time worker |
| 15 | She was a long time in answering . |
| 16 | So when we say we want the laws of physics perhaps to stay constant in time , when we observe these objects a long way away we 're observing the laws of physics as they were a long time ago . |
| 17 | And old man Heinz of Heinz fifty seven varieties , they were a big time , and gave her a little silver pickle with Heinz on it . |
| 18 | so I said but I 'm not disappointed but she said just listen to what I 've got to say , she said , erm , because anybody else that 's failed we 've just said I 'm sorry we ca n't have you , but she said with you , we all feel that you 've got so much to offer she said I 'm gon na offer you a relief post which means that you can go into other people 's ho er other homes , all around , all different hospitals if somebody 's short , they can call on you and I said could it be a full time job , will it give me enough money to say that I 'm working ? |
| 19 | Yeah , but you do it , it were a good time though . |
| 20 | They 've got to be moved and I it 's , it 's , it 's a tremendous time |
| 21 | But it 's a low time is n't it ? |
| 22 | It 's a dangerous time . |
| 23 | It 's a critical time to be abandoning the plot . |
| 24 | It 's a strange time to rejoin the Tories . |
| 25 | It 's a one time thing , it just happened |
| 26 | It 's a good time . |
| 27 | As you prepare to give your patch of grass its final once-over , it 's a good time to make sure you are n't going to be a tragic statistic next year . |
| 28 | Erm , and we , we find although Amnesty does run er door to door collection which we are always encouraged to join in which we never have , which is I think always in June , in June now , it 's good time , it 's a good time of year for it , but that means going round putting envelopes in doors , going back and collecting them , the arguments on the doorstep about Amnesty , er going back again if people are not in and we , we as a , relatively small group covering a very big area we , we have n't felt able to do that , and we actually find that by standing in the street with each person having a tin for one or two hours , we can do quite well that way and er , that 's , that 's . |
| 29 | It 's a good time to give all the windows a proper service . |
| 30 | It 's a good time for sightseeing in a city that , as well as the famous St Sophia 's Church and the Blue Mosque , is rich with remnants of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires . |