Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And promised a really good time . |
| 2 | ‘ For a long time , ’ he says , ‘ the king acted on the advice of William of Montague , who always encouraged him to excellence , honour , and love of arms : and so they led their young lives in pleasant fashion , until there came a more serious time with more serious matters . ’ |
| 3 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 4 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 5 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 6 | I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time . |
| 7 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 8 | We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time . |
| 9 | In what seemed a very short time the plane began to come down and bits of northern Italy could be seen below . |
| 10 | She waited what seemed an interminably long time before the same young maid again confronted her . |
| 11 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 12 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 13 | She was wearing trousers and as she kept her feet on the ground she felt reasonably secure , at least ; she kept her toes on the ground and spent a rather hilarious time trying to get control of it in the courtyard , her attempts bringing Marguerite out with words of advice and wide smiles . |
| 14 | I spent a little precious time searching for a telephone , but could n't find one . |
| 15 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |
| 16 | Although viruses have such a simple structure , biologists do not conclude that they are necessarily ‘ primitive ’ ; that is , that they evolved a very long time ago as precursors of more complex organisms . |
| 17 | With temperatures reaching 80$degree ; F , several teams dropped men through heat exhaustion , but the Germans ( 263 Parachute Battalion ) managed a very quick time and dropped only three shots on the range . |
| 18 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 19 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
| 21 | Which took a very long time . |
| 22 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 23 | It took a very short time indeed , and with every step Jenna 's trembling lessened , although she refused to think about the last few moments in the barn with Alain . |
| 24 | Disposing of Giraud took a relatively short time . |
| 25 | It was still switched through to the secretary 's office , and it took an infuriatingly long time to get a line . |
| 26 | Then Mabel took charge , leading the way to the Men and Boys ' Outfitting on the first floor , where they took an equally long time comparing styles and prices of under vests , and shirts with detachable collars and cuffs . |
| 27 | But this layout seemingly only lasted a comparatively short time , before it too was swept away , together with the buildings which had survived the previous changes and the fort defences . |
| 28 | The subordinate status of professionals lasted a very long time indeed . |
| 29 | We waited a very long time in growing unease . |
| 30 | He waited a very long time before saying , ‘ Talk , talk , talk , a man ca n't get a word in edgeways . ’ |