Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves . |
| 2 | In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police . |
| 3 | Although Luke translated the whole time for her , she felt desperately isolated and sick with longing for Ricky . |
| 4 | I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella . |
| 5 | ‘ I scored the first time after eight minutes . |
| 6 | Briefly , the image of Lexandro 's own two indulged foolish siblings , Andria and Phoeba , flitted through his consciousness for what seemed the first time in years . |
| 7 | The visitors ' early grip in midfield assured a testing time of it for the home defence , and they ought to have secured a greater half-time advantage than that supplied them by Mixu Paatelainen 's glorious second-minute header . |
| 8 | It seems clear , however that the initial cancellation only added a short time to the eventual arrival of the ambulance . |
| 9 | The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes . |
| 10 | A month seemed a long time to him too . |
| 11 | I sat for what seemed a long time in the cold darkness , breathing shallowly , not moving at all , just waiting , and eventually there was a lightening of the shadows and a luminosity in the wood , and the moon rose clear and bright in the east . |
| 12 | I remember myself , one time we had we had two grand fields and it were They were almost ripe when it came an awful time of rain , and they were just a sort of flattened . |
| 13 | The moon was full , the sky clear ; it seemed an ideal time for the manifestation of ghosts . |
| 14 | The Agriculture Minister , Mr John Gummer , and the Scottish Secretary , Mr Malcolm Rifkind , celebrated the small gains they had been able to negotiate , but admitted that the industry in Britain faced a tough time in the coming year . |
| 15 | Zen flashed his identification with contemptuous brevity and then allowed a little time for the mechanic 's fear to be fruitful and multiply . |
| 16 | I did zip the tent flap shut , but wasted no other time on housekeeping ; I would come back in daylight to tidy up and replace the stores I had used . |
| 17 | After they have turned round under gravity and interacted a second time with the microwaves , the fraction of atoms in the F=4 level is detected and recorded . |
| 18 | People lived a long time with fluid … asthma … emphysema … years . |
| 19 | Men lived a long time on Tarvaras . |
| 20 | I 'll get a I got a new time for my er twenty five sprint which was sixteen forty four in one length . |
| 21 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
| 22 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 23 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 24 | He began a third time with Abraham and the miracle of his son Isaac . |
| 25 | Noah 's family so quickly spoiled the new creation that God then made , and after Babel God began a third time with the calling of Abraham . |
| 26 | Now began a difficult time for Colin and Mary . |
| 27 | There followed a short time for recreation , which Beth enjoyed with Cissie and Richard ; then there was the mending to do , and the tea to prepare ; afterwards , there were the children to wash and bed . |
| 28 | The priests of the old deities had emerged from the desert or from hiding in neglected provincial cities in Shemau and To-mehu , and established themselves again , without difficulty , the people grateful to have the old gods returned to them , who demanded no more than unquestioning duty , propitiation and sacrifice ; gods who did not require a man to think for himself ; gods who forgave sin if the price was right , and who guaranteed a good time in the Hereafter . |
| 29 | He spent a long time over these calculations and they appeared to soothe him . |
| 30 | We spent a long time on the sofa that evening , and I would have stayed the night if he 'd asked me but he did n't . |