Example sentences of "a [adj] time [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to grow things you 've got ta do it at a specific time if you 're gon na wan na plan |
| 2 | It does indeed get dark at a sensible time so it 's possible to go to bed before about one in the morning . |
| 3 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 4 | She stopped singing when he knocked on the door , but he had to wait and knock a second time before she invited him in . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ She even shook my hand a second time after I told her I had full-blown AIDS . ’ |
| 6 | You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ? |
| 7 | I sure hope you 're not going to give me a hard time after I just travelled three thousand miles to see you , ’ Donna said , her eyes crinkling as she gave Alex another bear hug . |
| 8 | The rest are harder to get registered — designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and dubbed jubilee kiosks , they were mass-produced until 1968 — but they are likely to survive so long as they are in good condition and in ‘ heritage locations ’ ( that is , near the house of somebody ready to give BT a hard time if it tries to take them away ) . |
| 9 | In bed that night , Evelyn and Rose talked in whispers for a long time after they were sure that everyone else was asleep . |
| 10 | ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed . |
| 11 | For a long time after she had died , she had n't been able to think about her at all , it had been so awful , but now she could . |
| 12 | Her arms hugged around herself , she stood in the phone-box for a long time after she 'd replaced the receiver and it seemed quite incomprehensible to her now that she had n't contacted her mother before . |
| 13 | I was thinking , for a long time after you left . |
| 14 | Her daughter Jessica wrote a letter to the New York court saying : ‘ Please make Amy Fisher stay in jail for a long time so she ca n't hurt my mom again . ’ |
| 15 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , Daouad , you will not see the Sukkariya again for a long time unless you answer my questions . ’ |
| 17 | But all in all , it seems likely to be a long time before we reach that ‘ Utopian world of RDS ’ for all listeners in cars , at home or on foot ! |
| 18 | It was a long time before we recovered from the loss , and I vowed never to have another dog because we could never replace Sorrel . |
| 19 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 20 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |
| 21 | Although it will probably be a long time before we are prepared to let robots perform operations on us , Pam will be ready for trials next year , and her potential for cutting the 750,000 nursing days lost each year through back strain may make her popular with medical staff and patients alike . |
| 22 | The discipline of information science , which attempts to study all the ways in which human beings communicate information with each other and the many facilities which make it easier to perform , is in its earliest formative years , and it will be a long time before we can be sure either that the science of information is a true discipline or that it can deliver its present optimistic promises . |
| 23 | " It 's going to be a long time before we get another chance , though , is n't it though ? " |
| 24 | They will be voted out and it will be a long time before we have a Conservative Government in Britain again . |
| 25 | But I know it is sad that all our clubs are out of Europe now and it will probably be a long time before we can hope to dominate abroad as we once did . |
| 26 | It was a long time before they subsided sufficiently for him to relax his muscles and lie still in the rough familiar comfort of tangled blankets . |
| 27 | But the Voice of Reason argued that Preston 's marriage , and his career , were demasted , holed and rudderless a long time before they foundered together on the rock of Carla . |
| 28 | It was a long time before they spoke . |
| 29 | Although … well , it does look as though it 's going to be a long time before they can leave hospital , ’ she added sorrowfully . |
| 30 | His kisses were deep and cherishing and hungry , and it was a long time before they eventually came up for air . |