Example sentences of "very [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 2 | Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry . |
| 3 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 4 | If you take these for a very long time you get a beard and a deep voice , but as I only needed a month 's supply I escaped such horrors . |
| 5 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
| 6 | The king had his attendants with him , and in a very short time they overpowered and killed Gowrie and his brother , whose bodies were hanged , drawn and quartered , the quarters being displayed at Edinburgh , Perth , Dundee and Stirling . |
| 7 | To her astonishment , he nodded curtly , and in a very short time they arrived at her flat . |
| 8 | ‘ You shall have both , ’ he promised , and within a very short time they were back in the blissfully cool hotel . |
| 9 | After a very short time we all felt a horrible feeling of being watched and an intangible atmosphere of dread and doom . |
| 10 | So in a very short time we were in the air . |
| 11 | will go straight out the window and they wo n't bother with us , a very short time it 's taken five I mean six years to build up the credibility |
| 12 | What , what , what he 's saying is that a revolution is taking place here and it is , within a very short time it 's gon na spread on into other provinces . |
| 13 | In a very short time he heard Mary say , ‘ This is where I found the key … and this is the door … and this … this is the secret garden ! ’ |
| 14 | Within a very short time she was back again in full and active negotiation , determined to resist to the maximum extent possible any encroachment on the National Health Service for private interests . |
| 15 | Tina had told Jack the very first time they met : ‘ My dad hates the place — like my brothers do . ’ |
| 16 | From the very first time she 'd taken him down to meet her family , she had seen that they had n't liked him . |
| 17 | On that night he watched himself in the mirror all night , and for the very first time he was the one who asked for things and who made things happen in the order that he wanted them to . |
| 18 | His mouth closed over hers again , the touch of it as intoxicating as it had been the very first time he had kissed her . |
| 19 | He was brilliant the very first time he ran . |
| 20 | Dana 's words struck at my heart , as he had done , quite deliberately , when he had told me : ‘ The very first time I saw you , I knew you were gay . ’ |
| 21 | The very first time I met him , we lunched in downtown Barcelona with his first wife , Susy . |
| 22 | The very first time I saw him he stopped on his way to the front door , three , maybe four in the morning . |
| 23 | I remember ( the very first time I met him ) G.P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all . |
| 24 | The very first time I worked for Heather Wilkinson was just before my thirteenth birthday . |
| 25 | The very first time I saw you around I only said hello and I said hi . |
| 26 | From the very first time you took me to the pictures , you started to change me , shape me in your own image , make me like you . |
| 27 | I can remember the very first time it happened — I was out walking the dog with my mum and a car tooted at us , and my mum said , ‘ Oh , someone thinks your bottom 's nice ’ . |
| 28 | There are areas of activity where we will be producing improved services , and so we I think in this very difficult time we have managed to maintain our erm adherence to the principle that wherever it is possible we will improve and increase the services to the people of Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | Very frustrating time I think for everybody that last sort of quarter of an hour , nothing really flowing properly , you coming under increasing pressure — difficult time for a goal keeper then ? |
| 30 | And I was very naughty I , I felt like saying well some of their , they , them are n't er do you remember the very last time we were up in the hospital at the waiting area , there was those two nurses that walked up and down |