Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen entered a short time later , looking anxious . |
| 2 | Tenacious and long-memoried , they had not allowed themselves to be uprooted or changed a second time . |
| 3 | Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ . |
| 4 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 5 | He used a basic time range , later extended , of nine years , checking bibliographic coverage for 4 years before the base year , and four years afterwards . |
| 6 | The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later . |
| 7 | The visitors ' early grip in midfield assured a testing time of it for the home defence , and they ought to have secured a greater half-time advantage than that supplied them by Mixu Paatelainen 's glorious second-minute header . |
| 8 | I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’ |
| 9 | It seems clear , however that the initial cancellation only added a short time to the eventual arrival of the ambulance . |
| 10 | THE NATIONAL MARRIAGE GUIDANCE COUNCIL ( now called RELATE ) recognised a long time ago that the fabric of society has changed and one of the reasons for the organisation 's change of name is that it now deals with all personal crisis situations . |
| 11 | I should think you both deserved a restful time . |
| 12 | The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes . |
| 13 | They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again . |
| 14 | It seemed a right time , a right moment to ask Shama another question which had been haunting me . |
| 15 | It seemed a good time to make my excuses and leave , and I did both . ’ |
| 16 | She knew she would have to tell him one day , and now seemed a good time . |
| 17 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 18 | The ditch seemed a long time ago : two weeks and three days back to the lonely silent abandoned struggle in the attic , to the life that seemed now to be the dream , with Shellerton the reality . |
| 19 | I sat for what seemed a long time in the cold darkness , breathing shallowly , not moving at all , just waiting , and eventually there was a lightening of the shadows and a luminosity in the wood , and the moon rose clear and bright in the east . |
| 20 | A month seemed a long time to him too . |
| 21 | The prospect of another two years of study seemed a long time . |
| 22 | The prospect of another two years of study seemed a long time . |
| 23 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 24 | After what seemed a long time , but was in fact only seconds , an almost inaudible whisper issued into the room . |
| 25 | Ruth waited for what seemed a long time . |
| 26 | It seemed a long time before the railway lines began to shake , and they heard the train coming . |
| 27 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |
| 28 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 29 | It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles . |
| 30 | It seemed a long time since the small breakfast that was served in Spain , and in the end Felipe put a portion of each on her plate . |