Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 2 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 3 | Mungo predicted that if he ignored her a second time , she would go away . |
| 4 | She closed the lid ; when the catch failed to operate , she slammed it a second time with a violence that made several of the slumberers lift their heads . |
| 5 | Eventually , he climbed them a second time , very deliberately . |
| 6 | Mr Rochester was in such a hurry that he only allowed me a short time to put on my wedding dress and veil . |
| 7 | Sheldukher killed him a long time ago . ’ |
| 8 | So , ‘ Goodnight , ’ she bade him a second time , her goodnight this time , however , sounding husky and hasty as she started to hurry back to her room . |
| 9 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 10 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 11 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 12 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 13 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 14 | It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like . |
| 15 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 16 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 17 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 18 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 19 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 20 | Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot . |
| 21 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
| 22 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 23 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 24 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 25 | I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug . |
| 26 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 27 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
| 28 | One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction . |
| 29 | As for playing the Manson , well , it took me a little time to get into it . |
| 30 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |