Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 2 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 3 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 4 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 6 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 7 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 8 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 9 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 10 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 11 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 12 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 13 | I 'm going abroad for a short time … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They will have their tails up and I do n't think we could be going there at a harder time . |
| 15 | In the bite-shaped hollow , a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards . |
| 16 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 17 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
| 18 | We knew we were moving abroad at an interesting time in world history , but we did n't realize we 'd get to watch the apocalypse from here . |
| 19 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 20 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 21 | However , it may be that the norm here is ‘ horse ’ not ‘ filly ’ so that the frolicsomeness would be a characteristic found only at a particular time , viz . |
| 22 | By Luke 's own admission he saw her as shallow , someone interested only in a good time and a string of boyfriends . |
| 23 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think that will happen again for a long time , ’ said Davis , who comes to Goffs for this year 's event with confidence boosted by triumphs in the British and European Opens . |
| 25 | ‘ That woman friend of the boss who clings to his arm in the moonlight — do you think she will stay here for a long time ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 27 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 28 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 29 | I mean it 's crazy , why do n't they have the conference time at ten o'clock in the morning , and have the conference and everybody go home at a decent time , it 's silly . |
| 30 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |