Example sentences of "they [vb base] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The , councillor I am not passionate about getting rid of union representation , what I am passionate about is union members paying for their own representation , not me , not the people out there , if they want a full time union official let them pay for it but do n't expect other people to pick up the bill , it 's ludicrous er to er put that sort of money in our budget . |
| 2 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 3 | Say from one till ten cos they 're the early ones and then they get a certain time , then your numbers eleven to twenty |
| 4 | But does their mother think they get a hard time at school from the locals ? |
| 5 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |
| 6 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 7 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 8 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 9 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 10 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 11 | Allowed to remain in the cool waters of the pool , they take a considerable time to reappear and fulfil their role , and often fall prey to browsing water snails . |
| 12 | ‘ True , but they have a pleasant time in the sun while they 're about it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But I think that if they bring their children here they will find they have a good time . ’ |
| 15 | They have a marvellous time , but the best thing of all is totally unexpected — a family of sparrows nesting on the zoo gates on the way out . |
| 16 | They spend a happy time in Venice , but eventually Martin departs . |