Example sentences of "a [adj] time [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope you have had a pleasant time wherever you have been . |
| 2 | It is a little time when we can talk together , and I encourage her to talk about her father . |
| 3 | She could not recall a specific time when it had been moved . |
| 4 | Luce was about to ask a second time where they were when the door was opened by a plump , middle-aged woman wearing a neat black dress . |
| 5 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |
| 6 | Well the Bill was , who was the manager in those days was very much the manager , and there was one of the directors used to play for the Villa , and he used to more or less look after the playing side which the rest of the directors never seemed to interfere with , they , they left the management up to the manager the selection of the team , Bill and the trainer when they were in the second division was Arthur who 's manager of Derby County now , he had the , I believe he had a sad time when he was at Walsall he , he lost his wife in a car accident and |
| 7 | Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley . |
| 8 | ‘ But he gave me such a hard time when I was unfaithful . ’ |
| 9 | I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house . |
| 10 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 11 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 12 | It seemed a long time when I was a little girl , ’ added Mrs Teasdale . |
| 13 | She added : ‘ You have to make a big commitment to complete distance learning courses , and two years can be a long time when you are faced with constant learning . |
| 14 | Well it 's alright it 's not that long I suppose it 's a long time when you 're six . |
| 15 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 16 | You know he sounded a long time when he was saying it . |
| 17 | We 've both known for a long time how we feel about each other and all the reasons why nothing can ever come of it . |
| 18 | Some prefer to have a regular time when they purposely sit down and talk about themselves , their feelings and their hurts . |
| 19 | We seem to have a good time whenever we 're out and always have something to talk about , which is really great . |
| 20 | If the English do not like children , it is because they think they ought to behave properly , responsibly and quietly in their presence and can never riot or have a good time when they 're around . |
| 21 | If they do go ahead and put the application in , which I think they will , then , that 's the start of the process , so that 's a good time when we will need to really step up the campaign and we will get National speaker 's to meetings , we will get probably a petition , we will go round the area like we did over the er non funding , but we had to do something quickly , to , to make it clear , you know , we do n't want this to go ahead . |
| 22 | But how can you have a good time when you keep being reminded about ‘ the gulf between people who have stuff and the people who have shit ’ , or that ‘ the world does n't make sense [ to me ] any more ’ ? |
| 23 | This is a good time when you ca n't make rude noises |
| 24 | Did you have a good time when you went up to King 's Lynn ? |
| 25 | I was in my late twenties and , like any sailor , I liked a good time when I was on leave . |
| 26 | Big stock boats came from Russia and Germany for the salted Herring and it was a busy time when they were loading . |
| 27 | The political will came at a critical time when it was very necessary to keep the food costs component of the total wage bill ( including the foreign exchange component ) as low as possible to allow rapid and profitable industrialisation . |
| 28 | That maybe they get to a certain time when they 're going to be out of touch ? |
| 29 | Is there a certain time when you always love to sit down with a relaxing drink and something to eat ? |
| 30 | Michel thinks she will be in for a bad time when she realizes it . |