Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | But once again this ‘ temporary ’ extension of power and influence has lasted a long time , and the relative weighting of Diet , Cabinet , Bureaucracy and Judiciary remains a debated issue . |
| 32 | ‘ For one who intends to stay a long time with us , Englishman , you know little of us . |
| 33 | Citing cases , though usually a necessary part of the moot , tends to take a long time and to be boring for the audience . |
| 34 | During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three . |
| 35 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 36 | It does take a little time to right a market that has got so badly out of step . ’ |
| 37 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 38 | The fun-lover likes to have a good time . |
| 39 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 40 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 41 | If he fails to attend a second time the judge has power to commit him to prison for contempt of court . |
| 42 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 43 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 44 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 45 | She 's grown , she 's changed , she 's had a brilliant time , but her best is yet to come . |
| 46 | White face , dark circles and short temper — she 's had a brilliant time ! |
| 47 | Addison , well er , it 's a very well managed business , it 's a very good business er , there are only two businesses in the U S A have higher sales per head than Addison Wesley , and one of those is and it 's had a , that 's had a super time in maths and there 's only one business and that 's which earns more profit per employee then er , Addison Wesley and erm , again that 's and that reflects that one off maths programme . |
| 48 | Erm but she 's had a nice time . |
| 49 | She 's had a terrible time |
| 50 | I know he 's had a long time out with injury but he must be all right now or he would n't be playing . ’ |
| 51 | He 's had a thin time . |
| 52 | David 's been a really good friend to me , and he 's had a tough time because of it . |
| 53 | ‘ We do n't always see eye to eye , ’ Marler reflected , blowing smoke circles , ‘ Newman and I. But he 's had a tough time , I 'll give him that . ’ |
| 54 | BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 . |
| 55 | She 's had a bad time and no mistake . ’ |
| 56 | She 's had a bad time , so the buzz has it . |
| 57 | He 's had a bad time lately as Madame Verveine has had to go into the nursing-home again . |
| 58 | Patience , mon vieux , she told herself , the lady 's had a hard time . |
| 59 | ‘ He 's had a hard time , has Prentice . |
| 60 | ‘ He 's had a hard time getting into the world , ’ Elizabeth replied . |