Example sentences of "very [adj] time [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 2 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
| 3 | ‘ You shall have both , ’ he promised , and within a very short time they were back in the blissfully cool hotel . |
| 4 | So in a very short time we were in the air . |
| 5 | What , what , what he 's saying is that a revolution is taking place here and it is , within a very short time it 's gon na spread on into other provinces . |
| 6 | Within a very short time she was back again in full and active negotiation , determined to resist to the maximum extent possible any encroachment on the National Health Service for private interests . |
| 7 | On that night he watched himself in the mirror all night , and for the very first time he was the one who asked for things and who made things happen in the order that he wanted them to . |
| 8 | And I was very naughty I , I felt like saying well some of their , they , them are n't er do you remember the very last time we were up in the hospital at the waiting area , there was those two nurses that walked up and down |