Example sentences of "time [pron] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary , who now combines her psychology practice with astrological counselling , said : ‘ As a psychologist , for a long time I had been aware of a lack , that this science did not give the whole of the picture . |
| 2 | It was the first time I had been able to attend a pub meet at this particular hostelry , and I thought it was very nice , full of young people without being a noisy ‘ fun pub ’ . |
| 3 | The only time I had was five hours on the Sunday beforehand , and that was supposed to be a rest day . ’ |
| 4 | Er , certainly in the last well , all the time I 've been involved in developing these schemes , twenty seven twenty eight years now , we 've had a gradual increase over the years of involvement in the public , with the public and we 've been criticized where we have n't done so . |
| 5 | ‘ The reason I do n't have a band is that for the longest time I 've been disgusted with the mode that the American independent scene operates in and I do n't want to be associated with that . |
| 6 | Second time I 've been able to smell that . |
| 7 | by that time I 'd been involved with . |
| 8 | Many is the time I have been able at my grandmother 's table to lick my fingers after eating a cream coronet upon a precedent established by good Queen Mary who had been observed doing such a thing by no less than my grandmother when visiting the big house . |
| 9 | When I retired four years ago , I decided I would like to help and encourage other people to paint , and hopefully get as much pleasure form the hobby as I do , and since that time I have been able to meet up with groups of friends and pass on to them the knowledge I have gained through the pages of your magazine . |
| 10 | The amount of time I have been able to spend detecting has been hampered , unfortunately , by several setbacks . |
| 11 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 12 | For a long time she had been unaware of anything lacking , but recently she had started feeling somehow … adrift . |
| 13 | It was the first time she had been alone with him since last night and the thought of it made her fluttery inside . |
| 14 | It was delicious to be close to Alain , to belong to him , to know that all the time she had been alone he had been thinking about her . |
| 15 | It was the first time she had been able to grant his wish and take him to visit Santa Claus in a large department store , and that made it for her the happiest Christmas she could remember . |
| 16 | His voice was deep and soft with memories , so that she felt her heart dip , then beat crazily as she remembered the last time she 'd been involved in his research , when he 'd kissed her that morning . |
| 17 | I was quick to snap her up before you changed your mind she was n't right for national accounts at that time she 'd been good in the groups role |
| 18 | And it is not the first time she has been successful . |
| 19 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 20 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 21 | first time you 've been able to talk to him properly . |
| 22 | And it 's time you stopped being afraid of life . ’ |
| 23 | " But this is not the first time you have been unwell , is it ? " |
| 24 | Do you realise that this is the first time we 've been alone — I mean , really on our own ? ’ |
| 25 | But this is the first time we 've been able to excavate scientifically . |
| 26 | But by that time there had been two centuries of strife between Empire and Papacy and the Empire no longer had any special connection to the City of Rome . |
| 27 | ‘ The rallies were a spontaneous reaction to the troubles of the time and it was the first time there had been any movement like it in Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | The waning of enthusiasm for higher education had begun several years before , but this was the first time there had been fewer applicants than places offered . |
| 29 | For a time there had been grave apprehensions on that question of inheritance . |
| 30 | By this time there had been significant changes from the 1981–85 baseline in casualty distribution by age and road user type both locally and nationally . |