Example sentences of "this [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued to do this for some time . |
| 2 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 3 | I worked on this for some time and extended , integrated and tried to twist it to my style . |
| 4 | Secondly , if she 's likely to … be like this for some time , that the Lord Whatsit is the best nursing home available . ’ |
| 5 | They have apparently been doing this for some time . |
| 6 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 7 | As an intermediate skier I found some of the information ( eg buying skis and the extensive section on snowboarding ) irrelevant as I will not be doing this for some time . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't appear to have used this for some time . ’ |
| 9 | The medical profession has known this for some time , though , so it 's hardly hot news . |
| 10 | Bill Clough lay thinking about this for some time . |
| 11 | They lay half entwined like this for some time , occasionally exchanging kisses . |
| 12 | I also understand that one of the street lights in Lower Dolphinholme is burning continuously and has been like this for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ You will have to live with this for some time , ’ the sheriff added . |
| 14 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 15 | The American ambassador sent his CIA station chief to ask Walters what he was really doing in Morocco at this of all time Walters insisted that his visit had nothing to do with the Shah . |
| 16 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
| 17 | The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg . |
| 18 | He had been too lordly to do this at one time , preferring to give them as Christmas presents . |
| 19 | You can do this at any time and will receive a rebate against future charges in accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Credit ( Rebate on Early Settlement ) Regulations 1983 . |
| 20 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
| 21 | A You can do this at any time and will receive a rebate against future charges in accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Credit ( Rebate on Early Settlement ) Regulations 1983 . |
| 22 | I can alter this at any time , of course . |
| 23 | I have benefited from all of this at some time ; so have others . |
| 24 | Keoi look like ordinary human individuals — men and women — and in fact they were this at some time , but they performed a forbidden act which transformed them into keoi . |
| 25 | Practically all the interviewees had experienced this at some time during their drug career . |
| 26 | Every parent says this at some time . |
| 27 | Now do n't worry abo if you forget all of this by next time . |
| 28 | I was bending like a banana backwards like this by this time . |