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 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 . |
| 11 | I spent a little precious time searching for a telephone , but could n't find one . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 16 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Which took a very long time . |
| 19 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Disposing of Giraud took a relatively short time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The subordinate status of professionals lasted a very long time indeed . |
| 24 | We waited a very long time in growing unease . |
| 25 | He waited a very long time before saying , ‘ Talk , talk , talk , a man ca n't get a word in edgeways . ’ |
| 26 | They waited a very long time for his answer . |
| 27 | Bored and lonely , yes , but I had a reasonably pleasant time of things all the same . |
| 28 | We had a pretty good time I suppose , but to tell the truth I did n't feel like a party much . |
| 29 | It was generally agreed that Ella ruled the roost and that ‘ poor Miss Dean ’ had a pretty thin time of it . |
| 30 | Curiously enough , once Don was on , he took over so naturally and hilariously that I forgot to be frightened , had a thoroughly rumbustious time and breezed through the remainder of the show . |