Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves . |
| 2 | In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police . |
| 3 | Although Luke translated the whole time for her , she felt desperately isolated and sick with longing for Ricky . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It seems clear , however that the initial cancellation only added a short time to the eventual arrival of the ambulance . |
| 6 | The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes . |
| 7 | A month seemed a long time to him too . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I remember myself , one time we had we had two grand fields and it were They were almost ripe when it came an awful time of rain , and they were just a sort of flattened . |
| 10 | The moon was full , the sky clear ; it seemed an ideal time for the manifestation of ghosts . |
| 11 | The Agriculture Minister , Mr John Gummer , and the Scottish Secretary , Mr Malcolm Rifkind , celebrated the small gains they had been able to negotiate , but admitted that the industry in Britain faced a tough time in the coming year . |
| 12 | I did zip the tent flap shut , but wasted no other time on housekeeping ; I would come back in daylight to tidy up and replace the stores I had used . |
| 13 | People lived a long time with fluid … asthma … emphysema … years . |
| 14 | Men lived a long time on Tarvaras . |
| 15 | I 'll get a I got a new time for my er twenty five sprint which was sixteen forty four in one length . |
| 16 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
| 17 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 18 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 19 | Now began a difficult time for Colin and Mary . |
| 20 | There followed a short time for recreation , which Beth enjoyed with Cissie and Richard ; then there was the mending to do , and the tea to prepare ; afterwards , there were the children to wash and bed . |
| 21 | The priests of the old deities had emerged from the desert or from hiding in neglected provincial cities in Shemau and To-mehu , and established themselves again , without difficulty , the people grateful to have the old gods returned to them , who demanded no more than unquestioning duty , propitiation and sacrifice ; gods who did not require a man to think for himself ; gods who forgave sin if the price was right , and who guaranteed a good time in the Hereafter . |
| 22 | He spent a long time over these calculations and they appeared to soothe him . |
| 23 | We spent a long time on the sofa that evening , and I would have stayed the night if he 'd asked me but he did n't . |
| 24 | Alistair spent a long time on the covering note to Sixsmith — almost as long as he had spent on Offensive from Quasar 13 . |
| 25 | He spent a long time with her , talking , and making her feel better when she was crying and that .. |
| 26 | She spent a long time near the gate these days , but the snow had driven her indoors at last . |
| 27 | She spent a long time in the bathroom . |
| 28 | He was certainly in Italy before Narses died in 574 , and he subsequently spent a long time in Constantinople . |
| 29 | The 19-year-old Boat Club starlet was struck down by glandular fever last summer , and spent a frustrating time on the sidelines . |
| 30 | He graduated in 1940 and spent a short time at Pennsylvania State University before returning to UCLA to do his PhD . |