Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
| 2 | I 've just had a bad time . |
| 3 | You 're not old nan you 've just lived a long time |
| 4 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
| 5 | Wings , tail unit , undercarriage , radiators and other sundry items were sent out to various workshops of the ‘ warbird ’ industry , but the team still needed a full time project leader . |
| 6 | She had always taken a long time over her toilet : a review of her clothes ; a long-drawn-out bath ; massage ; manicure ; then her hair and make-up . |
| 7 | You 've sure had a hard time , Yvonne ; let's hope a copy of PowerPoint will cheer you up . |
| 8 | For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before . |
| 9 | Unfortunately Phil had unwittingly chosen a bad time to clash with the pirate radio vessel . |
| 10 | Course checked the whole time by the admiralty . |
| 11 | I was then permitted a short time during the lunch interval to study this new material before being cross-examined on it . |
| 12 | If , at some point , a legal reform , a ‘ crackdown ’ or a relatively abrupt social change , X , takes place , we have It may be possible to use this pattern sometimes called an interrupted time series to measure the effect of X , if any . |
| 13 | He continued : [ T ] he ultimate question for the court was this : if the section 146 notice had required the lessee to remedy the breach and the lessors had then allowed a reasonable time to elapse to enable the lessee fully to comply with the relevant covenant , would such compliance , coupled with the payment of any appropriate monetary compensation , have effectively remedied the harm which the lessors had suffered or were likely to suffer from the breach ? |
| 14 | St Catherine 's Dock was busy as a Hogarth etching and smelt as if something should have been quietly buried a long time ago . |