Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He fell twice , going down the second time across a litter of boxes , and losing the gun .
2 ‘ I suppose all the sorting out at the flat will take up the spare time for quite a while .
3 The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day .
4 The bad news is that your pass is for today and Friday , and Lil wo n't allow you to make up the lost time in the field .
5 Whether it 's because they feel they 're not taking up the valuable time of a doctor , they can go at their own pace , who knows ?
6 Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up a fastest time of the day .
7 A break during the middle of the day and a return to the stables — apart from the question of distance from the field where the work was being done — would have meant unyoking and yoking up a second time for another stint in the afternoon ; and this would have lengthened the day without appreciably lengthening the working time .
8 The carburettor had clogged up a second time in the storm and they had had to wait until it was over .
9 The meeting broke up a short time after , a bewildered Hoskyns leaving more convinced than ever that change would have to be wholesale .
10 FRANCIS Lee told crisis club Manchester City 's supporters and shareholders today : ‘ I 'm ready to help bring back the good times to Maine Road but only with your backing . ’
11 And secondly , we 'll be able to sort out a reasonable time for getting her home .
12 No fresh cool wind had swept through the valley for days , and the same stagnant air had been breathed in and out a hundred times by the whole gasping village .
13 The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car .
14 Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away .
15 I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else .
16 You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ?
17 But we do talk and what I know is you are essentially a decent and totally wonderful human being and I 'll hang around a long time for you .
18 But the Inter City Firm from West Ham were around a long time before the Service Crew .
19 Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world .
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