Example sentences of "go [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's wanted to go for a long time , ’ said Anne , nodding . |
| 2 | When they had eaten their meal of wheat ro is and milk they kept the fire going for a long time . |
| 3 | Blockbusters are going through a terrible time , and I had no desire to add to the misery . |
| 4 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 5 | ‘ Farmers are going through a hard time , especially those on small acreage . |
| 6 | He felt that Emerson was going through a hard time in his own life , that he was confused , that he was having marital problems , that Brazil and his family were getting him down : in other words , that Emerson was under a lot of pressure . |
| 7 | She explained that Donald was going through a difficult time , ‘ We all have our difficult times , right ? ’ and Nathan would have to be patient with him . |
| 8 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 9 | ‘ If you are going through a difficult time , we do need to know why , hence the benefit of having good information and figures to hand . ’ |
| 10 | In the circumstances they could hardly refuse our request for a special audit — indeed , they appeared to welcome it , saying that although they were going through a difficult time they had nothing to hide , and were confident that the bank would wish to continue its support . " |
| 11 | But after plunging towards the relegation zone with just four points from the previous 21 , he admitted : ‘ We have been going through a bad time and We needed this win . ’ |
| 12 | I know you 're going through a bad time , but my main concern is Maureen . ’ |
| 13 | It is obviously more difficult to set aside time for meal planning if you happen to be going through a heavy time at work . |
| 14 | You might not be going through an easy time emotionally or materially but all the dramatic sagas now unfolding will eventually come together to produce and excellent outcome . |
| 15 | To a number of us the crucial omission was any help for industry , which was going through an appalling time . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine . |
| 17 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 18 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 19 | Goes on a long time does it ? |
| 20 | In 1900 he went to St Thomas 's Hospital to study medicine , qualifying in 1906 as MRCS and LRCP , and he then went for a short time to Brompton Hospital and Convalescent Centre . |
| 21 | Does n't matter I mean , it 'll go for a long time you know . |
| 22 | You know , you may go for a long time and not see any , then you 'll see two or three in possibly a week . |
| 23 | In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold . |
| 24 | ‘ He had been nursed superbly and that needs to be said because the nurses have gone through a difficult time for obvious reasons and I would like to assure them , in public , that what they have done was quite superlative . ’ |
| 25 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 26 | He had been gone for a long time . |
| 27 | Did you say to her , I 'm going out to re I 'm going out and I may be gone for a long time . |
| 28 | It seems to be gone for a long time . |
| 29 | Yeah they went into an upbeat time did n't they ? |
| 30 | Enjoy all your days , they are all too often gone in a short time . |