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 | 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 |
| 3 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A fine time you picked to woke up ! |
| 10 | ‘ I phoned him and said , ‘ I 've been telling everyone what a great time you had , I feel tricked , betrayed , like an idiot . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | An organiser said : ‘ She was having such a great time she did n't want to go . |
| 13 | For a long time they just held each other there under the stars . |
| 14 | For a long time they treated the question of political power as wholly subordinate to the social struggle . |
| 15 | For a long time they had led a life of measured grace ; regular sedate walks with their mistress , superb food in ample quantities and long snoring sessions on the rugs and armchairs . |
| 16 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 17 | For a long time they did not speak . |
| 18 | Finally her arms went gently round his waist , and for a long time they sat there , while he listened to the sounds of the party , and felt — against his side , and within the perimeter his arm made around her — the gentle ebb and flow of her breath , Please , please , do n't come now , Mrs Hunter . |
| 19 | For a long time they clung together so until , with a haggard shaking of her head , Emilia freed herself from the embrace , struggled for , and found , a measure of composure . |
| 20 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 21 | Afterwards she clung to him , the tears wet on her cheeks , and for a long time they lay together in silence as the light of the October evening faded around them . |
| 22 | Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking . |
| 23 | For a long time they thought it might have been dysentery , but thank goodness it did n't turn out to be that serious . |
| 24 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 25 | For a long time we have been thinking and praying about a place of our own . |
| 26 | At night we were visited by entrepreneurs in sarongs and Muslim black felt " peci " hats , who knocked so quietly that for a long time we thought they were merely underpowered geckos . |
| 27 | Thirty seconds is to produce a film that 's a long time we did talk about seven second slots as well |
| 28 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
| 29 | For a long time we have made it clear that the largest restriction on the growth of the transplant programme is the availability of donated organs , although it is not a restriction which has stopped the programme in its tracks . |
| 30 | It 's a long time , no no no , it 's a long time we since we er cleaned them . |