Example sentences of "a [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if ever there was a right time it was now . |
| 2 | Hannah may have gone without most of the comforts that people take for granted , but at least she had emotional warmth and stability , wrapped as she was in the cocoon of a caring family — her mother , her grandparents , and for a little time her tragic father , all around her . |
| 3 | Why not join our band of Volunteers — even if you can spare a little time you will always be welcome . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | For the other to remain other it must not derive its meaning from History but must instead have a separate time which differs from historical time . |
| 9 | A second time we were too soon |
| 10 | Fearful of waking him a second time I waited . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If you then get it a second time you will then possibly have an allergic reaction to the horse serum . |
| 14 | But if he borrows the same amount a second time he becomes liable to a second charge . |
| 15 | when I visit him a second time he did n't turn up at all |
| 16 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 17 | The poem is too long to quote in its entirety here , but the opening lines should provide a suitable contrast with " The retreate " : Here , a particular incident in the past is being recalled ; so the bulk of the poem has a content time which is separate from the coding time . |
| 18 | At a later time it was even decreed that should there be no male ( in particular a father ) available to sever the foreskin and make the blood flow , then the child should wait until he had grown up and then perform the operation himself . |
| 19 | Most of the evidence for these legends is drawn from some rather vague references by the Greek historian Plato , in particular a passage in his Timaeus : ‘ But at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods , and one grievous day and night befell them when the whole body . |
| 20 | For a brief time there was a respite from conflict . |
| 21 | I think it worth pointing out that of course erm when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister for a brief time I think Lady Young was Leader of the House of Lords in her cabinet , but apart from that there was never another women cabinet minister during her time as leader , so |
| 22 | ‘ I had no idea that Mary was on that tack ; she 's a nice girl and she 's had a hard time what with that husband of has and now her father almost bedridden with arthritis . ’ |
| 23 | Sh and people here give her such a hard time I mean like the blokes are always say oh God , you know , that troll and everything but I |
| 24 | You complain about your friends never coming to see you , but when they do come , you give them such a hard time it 's hardly surprising they stay away . |
| 25 | A fine time you picked to woke up ! |
| 26 | ‘ I phoned him and said , ‘ I 've been telling everyone what a great time you had , I feel tricked , betrayed , like an idiot . ’ |
| 27 | You come all the way to see our fine city with its many points of historical and civic interest , also many quaint customs , and you wake up dead in some back alley or as it might be floating down the Ankh , how are you going to tell all your friends what a great time you 're having ? |
| 28 | An organiser said : ‘ She was having such a great time she did n't want to go . |
| 29 | For a long time her hands , especially the tips of her fingers , had been covered in dreadful wart-like sores . |
| 30 | " We 've been together a long time Her voice went thick and inarticulate . |