Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think there 's the stretching of it you see , I mean wire w after a certain time it would stretch a bit |
| 2 | After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight . |
| 3 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 4 | After a long time I heard him get up and come over to the long wall , near to where I was sitting listlessly in the arm-chair . |
| 5 | After a long time I said , " Do you want me to leave you alone ? " |
| 6 | After a short time it was clear that Sir Henry had fallen deeply in love with the beautiful Miss Stapleton . |
| 7 | After a short time he called back . |
| 8 | After a short time he asked if he could have a whisky and soda , and when the ingredients were brought tried to pour a drink for the King . |
| 9 | If the money remains unclaimed for a certain time it is returned to the finder . |
| 10 | For a long time they just held each other there under the stars . |
| 11 | For a long time they treated the question of political power as wholly subordinate to the social struggle . |
| 12 | For a long time they had led a life of measured grace ; regular sedate walks with their mistress , superb food in ample quantities and long snoring sessions on the rugs and armchairs . |
| 13 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 14 | For a long time they did not speak . |
| 15 | Finally her arms went gently round his waist , and for a long time they sat there , while he listened to the sounds of the party , and felt — against his side , and within the perimeter his arm made around her — the gentle ebb and flow of her breath , Please , please , do n't come now , Mrs Hunter . |
| 16 | For a long time they clung together so until , with a haggard shaking of her head , Emilia freed herself from the embrace , struggled for , and found , a measure of composure . |
| 17 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 18 | Afterwards she clung to him , the tears wet on her cheeks , and for a long time they lay together in silence as the light of the October evening faded around them . |
| 19 | Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking . |
| 20 | For a long time they thought it might have been dysentery , but thank goodness it did n't turn out to be that serious . |
| 21 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 22 | For a long time we have been thinking and praying about a place of our own . |
| 23 | At night we were visited by entrepreneurs in sarongs and Muslim black felt " peci " hats , who knocked so quietly that for a long time we thought they were merely underpowered geckos . |
| 24 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
| 25 | For a long time we have made it clear that the largest restriction on the growth of the transplant programme is the availability of donated organs , although it is not a restriction which has stopped the programme in its tracks . |
| 26 | But as we said earlier that some of us who have been in the truth for a long time we were like that years ago , but somewhere along the line we 've become drowsy and a little sort of halfhearted and maybe dozing a little bit as we go down that sort of motorway er of spirituality and that , that the longer you go it can become more difficult because other things come along do n't they ? |
| 27 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 28 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 29 | and , cos I said to the dealers for a long time you know do n't put them under stairs , do n't put them in store rooms , they get locked , locked up with vacuum cleaners and you ca n't get to the gear when you go to them , do n't put them high up on the wall we ca n't reach them and they just laugh , but er , I think the last laugh 's on us now cos er if I see one high up on the wall , I say well that , I say we 're not accepting that , you have to move it |
| 30 | Oh well if you have n't had chi or have n't done for a long time you enjoy them . |