Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for Hampshire police said : ‘ It seems Mrs Soper died and then her husband passed away a short time later . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 4 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He recorded again a short time later : The overseers are harassed to death and summoned everyday before a justice , this will never do … |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 12 | Because if it had been painted , and the paint took quite a long time to dry and er if there was a speck of dust it remained there forever . |
| 13 | It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him . |
| 14 | Then he remembered the guard back at Wissembourg and knew he had only a limited time to cover his tracks . |
| 15 | As it was a weekend , all the bigger-wig doctors were not on duty but , knowing of Nigel 's condition and that he had only a short time to live , they brought him through . |
| 16 | Leech had only a short time to go before his own appointment came to an end , but thought that under the circumstances he should offer his resignation . |
| 17 | They had only a short time before followed the tantalising fresh scent-trail laid by Grant and Larsen , which they had then lost at the foot of the house wall . |
| 18 | The ballroom had been thrown wide to accommodate the funeral guests , and Mrs Diggory was busy serving refreshments to the gentlemen who had just a short time since returned from the graveside of the deceased Lady Merchiston . |
| 19 | I did my usual tap dancing on the table , but actually had quite a good time . |
| 20 | and then er had quite a nice time . |
| 21 | After a short while he found that the gypsies were taking their horses to him to be shod ; and he had quite a busy time shoeing gypsy horses . |
| 22 | He had been at large in occupied France and had quite a tough time of it , but at least he survived and came back to Baldersdale . |
| 23 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 24 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 25 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 26 | He was very interested in Jenna 's accident and stayed quite a long time . |
| 27 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 28 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 29 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |