Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen entered a short time later , looking anxious . |
| 2 | Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ . |
| 3 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 4 | The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later . |
| 5 | I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’ |
| 6 | THE NATIONAL MARRIAGE GUIDANCE COUNCIL ( now called RELATE ) recognised a long time ago that the fabric of society has changed and one of the reasons for the organisation 's change of name is that it now deals with all personal crisis situations . |
| 7 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 8 | The ditch seemed a long time ago : two weeks and three days back to the lonely silent abandoned struggle in the attic , to the life that seemed now to be the dream , with Shellerton the reality . |
| 9 | If you put the two together erm you i it becomes understandable why they , they adopted these policies to the south , even though sort of from what happened the first time particularly in a retrospective way , the expectation would be you would , this would be the are where you would go for land reform straight away . |
| 10 | But this , as he would say , is a long story , and happened a long time ago . |
| 11 | After all , these things happened a long time ago . |
| 12 | Historical events that happened a long time ago . |
| 13 | I do n't know when this story started but it certainly happened a long time ago . |
| 14 | She swallowed hard and began , ‘ Well , the Big Bang happened a long time ago . |
| 15 | But then , all this business happened a long time ago . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't see the relevance of something that happened a long time ago . |
| 17 | ‘ It happened a long time ago , my dear , when we were quite small , romping in the wood . |
| 18 | She was also hungry , very hungry , she acknowledged a short time later as she did justice to the duckling and fresh vegetables Roman had ordered . |
| 19 | ‘ The coach arrived a long time ago ! |
| 20 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
| 21 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 22 | A lot of people seem to refer to Jesus as a good man who lived a long time ago ; a man who taught about God and who became ‘ Son of God ’ by his resurrection . |
| 23 | ‘ It does n't matter — just someone who lived a long time ago — best forgotten . ’ |
| 24 | The rest of us quit a long time ago . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've told yer plenty of times , me an' Tommy finished a long time ago . |
| 26 | The story of Eddie Aikau began a long time ago : |
| 27 | Our drift out of nationhood — a collective , willed political identity — into a reality we could not shape nor even talk about began a long time ago . |
| 28 | But human beings discovered a long time ago that if the birds were taken away from their homes , they had an uncanny ability to return even across miles of territory that was totally unknown to them . |
| 29 | Researchers investigating the causes of psychological depression spent a long time carefully documenting how severe , traumatizing events that happen to people , such as bereavement or job loss , can induce it . |
| 30 | Toby ( 4.5 ) had been playing with blocks , but then wandered away and the blocks were put away by two other boys , who spent a long time carefully fitting the different sizes of blocks into the two boxes . |