Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a good time to make my excuses and leave , and I did both . ’ |
| 2 | I very nearly took you then and there , standing up , in a cold dark cave … after that I needed a little time to sort through my feelings , sabiha tieghi … ’ |
| 3 | As the bell rang a third time to indicate the beginning of lessons , the girls moved into four groups around four tables , and the teachers came into the room to start the Bible class . |
| 4 | Film superstar Alan Rickman took a little time to settle comfortably into the stage mantle of Shakespeare 's much-wronged prince , as if the echo of his own voice was vying with King Hamlet 's exhortations to do the deed , but this soon gives way to a gentle yet powerful Hamlet . |
| 5 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 6 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 7 | When she first joined the company , packing vitamins and herbal medicines three years ago , she took a little time to get used to the work . |
| 8 | News concerning the development in style took a little time to percolate through to the country ; a sculptor carving a resurrection scene on a 1707 headstone outside the south door of Uffington church , Oxfordshire , continues to depict the gable-lidded coffin . |
| 9 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |
| 10 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 11 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 12 | She agrees with Gnome Pfeiffer ( coauthor of The Experience of Infertility , Virago ) that feminists took a long time to put infertility on the political agenda , and she suggests that this is partly due to attitudes toward motherhood . |
| 13 | Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 . |
| 14 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 15 | All fairly straightforward though the coded letter we recovered from his baggage took a long time to crack , while his shaving kit will never be the same again after each piece was stripped to its component parts by one participant . |
| 16 | The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest . |
| 17 | The small block of semi-refined sugar , like cement , took a long time to dissolve . |
| 18 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 19 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 20 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 21 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 22 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 23 | The wounded took a long time to arrive . |
| 24 | It took a long time to open it and when he drank , it tasted warm against his mouth , as if it had been in the sun ; only there was no sun , not even at fifteen thousand . |
| 25 | The picturesque view , which envisages life as art , took a long time to die . |
| 26 | Victims frequently took a long time to die , often very unpleasantly . |
| 27 | He took a long time to answer the door and his painful movements towards and into his armchair explained why . |
| 28 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 29 | O'Hara took a long time to kick-start the motorbike from the kerb . |
| 30 | The four-cylinder engine was more reliable in 1957 , but BRM took a long time to realise that the P25 's air strut suspension — carried over from the V16 — was the cause of its savage oversteer . |