Example sentences of "a [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if ever there was a right time it was now . |
| 2 | Why not join our band of Volunteers — even if you can spare a little time you will always be welcome . |
| 3 | The basic shape is very easy to make , but if you do have a little time you might want to give the dragon more elaborate scales . |
| 4 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 5 | That you se it was , it was on here a few times he talks deliberately , and rather slow |
| 6 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 7 | When you 've been through this a few times you 'll |
| 8 | Yeah , we stopped a few times you know in the |
| 9 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 10 | I can also , if I erm come across the same problem a few times I could hopefully work on that and then probably eradicate altogether . |
| 11 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 12 | I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid |
| 13 | I remember once , yeah it was like that , yeah that 's right , not one , but a few times I used to get on the train from Runcorn to Liverpool , I had an address to go to in Liverpool , rough directions how to get there , to pick up a suit or to pick up a fitting , you know you 'd get the , the different |
| 14 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 15 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |
| 16 | The big dog had snapped it from his fingers eagerly enough , but after rolling it around in her mouth a few times she spat it to the floor and pawed at it , growling and sniffing her distaste . |
| 17 | A few times she shouted at them , saying that they were disturbing the peace of the neighbourhood , but this did not discourage them ; a few evenings later they would come back with new songs . |
| 18 | If a black pupil comes to see her a few times she automatically labels them as troublemakers . |
| 19 | A few times she was aware that he was watching her , but managed every time to resist the temptation to look up , unsure of just what she might see in his eyes . |
| 20 | I mean , when our Bon was learning I went with her a few times she frightened the life out of me ! |
| 21 | Should we not also still go for the , if we can , the one and a half times they work Saturdays ? |
| 22 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |
| 23 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 24 | A second time we were too soon |
| 25 | Fearful of waking him a second time I waited . |
| 26 | I beg to move , That the Bill be now read a Second time I believe that there will be a consensus across the House on the Bill . |
| 27 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |
| 28 | If you then get it a second time you will then possibly have an allergic reaction to the horse serum . |
| 29 | But if he borrows the same amount a second time he becomes liable to a second charge . |
| 30 | when I visit him a second time he did n't turn up at all |