Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following account summarizes the factual information I obtained about the prison , as well as the general impressions I gained during the necessarily short time I was able to spend inside it . |
| 2 | Given the brief span of their acquaintance , the even briefer time they had actually spent together , how could he have been so presumptuous as to imagine that she would wish to fly out and join him at the Plaza ? |
| 3 | The memories were vague and dream-like , not associated with the world in which he now lived , but he was well aware that the relatively brief time he spent on the island had changed his life irreversibly . |
| 4 | Tina had told Jack the very first time they met : ‘ My dad hates the place — like my brothers do . ’ |
| 5 | I can remember the very first time it happened — I was out walking the dog with my mum and a car tooted at us , and my mum said , ‘ Oh , someone thinks your bottom 's nice ’ . |
| 6 | Dana 's words struck at my heart , as he had done , quite deliberately , when he had told me : ‘ The very first time I saw you , I knew you were gay . ’ |
| 7 | The very first time I met him , we lunched in downtown Barcelona with his first wife , Susy . |
| 8 | The very first time I saw him he stopped on his way to the front door , three , maybe four in the morning . |
| 9 | I remember ( the very first time I met him ) G.P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all . |
| 10 | The very first time I worked for Heather Wilkinson was just before my thirteenth birthday . |
| 11 | The very first time I saw you around I only said hello and I said hi . |
| 12 | From the very first time you took me to the pictures , you started to change me , shape me in your own image , make me like you . |
| 13 | On that night he watched himself in the mirror all night , and for the very first time he was the one who asked for things and who made things happen in the order that he wanted them to . |
| 14 | His mouth closed over hers again , the touch of it as intoxicating as it had been the very first time he had kissed her . |
| 15 | He was brilliant the very first time he ran . |
| 16 | From the very first time she 'd taken him down to meet her family , she had seen that they had n't liked him . |
| 17 | Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry . |
| 18 | And I was very naughty I , I felt like saying well some of their , they , them are n't er do you remember the very last time we were up in the hospital at the waiting area , there was those two nurses that walked up and down |
| 19 | The narrator , waxing enthusiastic at this reception , contrived to relate how the fisherman took ‘ Old Charley ’ in his boat the Irene round the foreland to Margate the very last time he came down to Broadstairs . |
| 20 | My dream of a book whose print fades a little each time it is read until the pages are blank . |
| 21 | At a more appropriate time I will be happy to prove to you just how much excitement and delight our mutual attraction can generate . ’ |
| 22 | you have a really amazing time they 're saying when you get high this happens then it can usually result in this |
| 23 | The one who understands what a simply horrid time he 's had and how he now deserves to be understood and adored . |
| 24 | Closing her eyes , she melted into his embrace , willingly parted her mouth for him — and she truly had n't known , until now , how many ways there were to kiss — or what a gloriously long time it would take to discover them all . |
| 25 | You may remember that , when Olympic diver Greg Louganis struck his head on the diving board , in a surprisingly short time he returned to the board to win a third Gold Medal . |
| 26 | We had a pretty good time I suppose , but to tell the truth I did n't feel like a party much . |
| 27 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 28 | If you take these for a very long time you get a beard and a deep voice , but as I only needed a month 's supply I escaped such horrors . |
| 29 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 30 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |