Example sentences of "a [adj] time [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 | ‘ I do n't know what kind of madness overtook me , ’ he said , ‘ but a little time ago I made a contract with somebody to have her killed . ’ |
| 4 | She could not recall a specific time when it had been moved . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |
| 7 | You do them up , you do n't da you muck them out , dress them over , let them loose they have a easy time like we do . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley . |
| 10 | ‘ But he gave me such a hard time when I was unfaithful . ’ |
| 11 | I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house . |
| 12 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It seemed a long time when I was a little girl , ’ added Mrs Teasdale . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well it 's alright it 's not that long I suppose it 's a long time when you 're six . |
| 17 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 18 | You know he sounded a long time when he was saying it . |
| 19 | A long time later she finally drifted into sleep . |
| 20 | A long time later she stirred , and Travis shifted his weight , drawing her into the warm curve of his body . |
| 21 | A long time later he raised his head and said huskily , ‘ Are you sure ? ’ |
| 22 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 23 | They say that , as the wars happened such a long time ago we should simply forget about them now . |
| 24 | But a long time ago I was writing a television play about Irish men coming over to England to collect their brother 's body , and I could n't imagine how they 'd talk . |
| 25 | A long time ago I was ruled by the Pharaohs . |
| 26 | But I just ca n't do this with anyone else , because a long time ago I was raped , and my lover is the only man I could bear to touch me . |
| 27 | When I was at school ( a long time ago I 'll grant you ) half a dozen was six . |
| 28 | Well it was but that was a long time ago I started that , it was tucked inside the book thank you . |
| 29 | Yeah , t is a long time ago I know |
| 30 | It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth . |