Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 2 | A spokesman for Hampshire police said : ‘ It seems Mrs Soper died and then her husband passed away a short time later . |
| 3 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
| 4 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 5 | Charles drove out a short time later back to Highgrove . |
| 6 | Mowed down the first time she left her new baby son |
| 7 | ‘ Somebody told me that they saw the Bad Seeds recently and the show was being recorded , and that Blixa had had his volume knob turned down the whole time ! |
| 8 | Both women had been surprised when he turned up a second time . |
| 9 | This happened about a dozen times . |
| 10 | They barked loudly a few times , but Lorimer ran swiftly towards them . |
| 11 | Creep can be defined as a progressive increase in strain , observed over an extended time period , in a polymer subjected to a constant stress . |
| 12 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 13 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 14 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 15 | The meeting broke up a short time after , a bewildered Hoskyns leaving more convinced than ever that change would have to be wholesale . |
| 16 | In terms of this country , in particular , you said that it , it started roughly the same time because of the , the legislation in nineteen oh nine . |
| 17 | In 1936 the British began to plan colonial broadcasting for indigenous people , but these plans were shelved when world war broke out a second time . |
| 18 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 19 | He recorded again a short time later : The overseers are harassed to death and summoned everyday before a justice , this will never do … |
| 20 | Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’ |
| 21 | Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’ |
| 22 | We climbed up again and rolled down a second time , Mom sighing and giggling again , again . |
| 23 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 24 | The clearance of the staging at the end of the bridge took only a short time , and it was not until they were moving once more that Alexei had a sudden thought . |
| 25 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 26 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 27 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 28 | Six candles went out the first time , the remaining three the second time . |
| 29 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 30 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |