Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 2 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |
| 3 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 4 | It seemed a long time since the small breakfast that was served in Spain , and in the end Felipe put a portion of each on her plate . |
| 5 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 6 | It seemed a long time before the railway lines began to shake , and they heard the train coming . |
| 7 | It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles . |
| 8 | It seemed a long time before footsteps came along the hall , the door was pushed wider and Guy appeared with an armful of logs . |
| 9 | They were principally used on board ship to measure its speed by counting the number of knots paid out on a line tied to a log floating astern , while the sand-glass measured a given time that was usually half a minute . |
| 10 | It happened every single time and it is very upsetting indeed . |
| 11 | Robert Beard from Manchester South Pest Control , achieved an incredible time and beat everyone else in 31.36 seconds , Jonathon Hume from Birmingham South won the whole event . |
| 12 | ‘ Jodami recorded a good time and we had The Fellow well beaten . |
| 13 | It rang a long time before a woman 's voice answered — the same woman . |
| 14 | Already he had spent an hour wandering around the town — it needed no more time than that — trying to get the feel of the place . |
| 15 | This represented the first time that all five states had agreed on all aspects of ending the Cambodian conflict . |
| 16 | 1991 saw the first time that the Open School was able to run a summer holiday programme which culminated in the performance of dance , music and drama work done by the children . |
| 17 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 18 | It took a long time before she could even bring herself to close her eyes , let alone contemplate sleep . |
| 19 | It took a long time before she 'd sit in that chair . |
| 20 | It took a long time before she would sit in there though did n't it ? |
| 21 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 22 | It took a long time because Louise kept interrupting with questions that Constance could n't answer and which seemed irrelevant beside the tremendous fact that Ludovico was waiting for her and she longed to run to him . |
| 23 | It took a long time and many attempts before the standard route was worked out . |
| 24 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 25 | It took a long time and I 'm not sure I ever did . |
| 26 | The final whistle brought an anxious time while the players waited for their rivals ' results . |
| 27 | That marked the first time that solar neutrons were detected on the ground . |
| 28 | It marked the first time that an Offshore Division production platform has been used to process oil or natural gas from a third party well . |
| 29 | THE majority community is sick and tired of hearing how a nationalist area was saturated with the security forces who departed a short time before loyalist paramilitaries entered to commit murder . |
| 30 | Thomas Jensen , from Denmark , had the fastest time and Dutchman Robert Binnenweg was best in the air but it was Hutchison 's overall control on the steep 250m course that won the day . |