Example sentences of "[prep] it a [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
2 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
3 | But the AA thinks commuters might not get away with it a third time . |
4 | Patience has sat upon it a long time , |
5 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
6 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
7 | ‘ I 've told you about it a thousand times . ’ |
8 | And they 're all they 're they 're all patterns within lots of similarities , by going through it a few times like that and when you when you 've done that go through again say and with and everywhere you could write the whole lot out again |
9 | I stared at it a long time . |