Example sentences of "up [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straightening up for a second time , Anna thought Isobel looked more like a librarian than a deacon . |
| 2 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'm dreaming I hope I do n't wake up for a long time , ’ he says . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 6 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 7 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 9 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |
| 10 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 11 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 12 | Experience tells us that many people who take up jogging , cycling , and other aerobic routines often sustain injuries , or simply give up after a short time . |
| 13 | Any dwellings not taken up within a specified time are placed on the open market . |
| 14 | I had no doubt they 'd turn up within a short time , so I went off duty . |
| 15 | Put as simply as possible the hypothesis is : — From the start of life up to a certain time which is designated the Dawn of Civilisation , ‘ goodness ’ was being created from one source only , that source being the endless stream of infinitely small but favourable evolutionary changes or events , producing an infinite number of minute units of what , by virtue of its favourable nature , has been termed ‘ goodness ’ , the outcome of each favourable event being regarded as one unit . |
| 16 | Well w we did n't have to do , do anything that way because we were allowed our freedom up to a certain time and that was it . |
| 17 | ‘ For instance , the man who , up to a short time ago , was chosen to select films from the West for showing in Slovakia , and to attend festivals like Cannes and Venice , was a butcher by trade . |
| 18 | And Gordon 's use of the melodramatic ( a vital dose of vanishingly scarce penicillin to treat a key character turns up at a crucial time ) is disappointing alongside the excellence of his writing elsewhere . |