Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 2 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 3 | Which took a long time to recover from . |
| 4 | Pakistan , which had a short time before recognized Azerbaijan 's independence , recognized the independence of the Central Asian republics and of the Russian Federation on Dec. 20 , following a three-week visit to the Soviet Union by the Minister of State for the Economy which ended on Dec. 18 . |
| 5 | I sat for what seemed a long time in the cold darkness , breathing shallowly , not moving at all , just waiting , and eventually there was a lightening of the shadows and a luminosity in the wood , and the moon rose clear and bright in the east . |
| 6 | After what seemed a long time , but was in fact only seconds , an almost inaudible whisper issued into the room . |
| 7 | Ruth waited for what seemed a long time . |
| 8 | He took the instrument and listened to Sandy 's heart for what seemed a long time . |
| 9 | He looked at her for what felt a long time , seemed about to say something more , but in the end let the moment pass . |