Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , and to add to the injustices he had already suffered , Meehan was obliged to wait five years , which was the time it took Lord Hunter to complete and publish his report . |
| 2 | What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me . |
| 3 | Er on the horses that 's understandable , they can start off and probably do n't knock theirself but there 's a time they 'd done twenty or thirty mile pulling a load . |
| 4 | We 're the ones that have said to Jehovah I am dedicating my life to you , I am going to do this , do that and the other and it 's up to us as to whether we do it , so it requires effort , first , five , six , also says let us stay awake , keep our senses first Peter , five , eight keep your senses , be watchful and then first Corinthians , ten , twelve which I think the song was based on let him think that he is standing , beware , beware , beware that he does not fall , if you think things are going along nicely and you 're in a comfortable little corner , a little niche in the truth , and it 's just how you like it , and it 's just the way you want it to be and there 's the time we need to be aware because there 's an opening for Satan to get into to make us fall . |
| 5 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 6 | ‘ Good God , there was a time I saw him — still but a child , to be sure — playing his fingers in her hair with such warmth and love in his face , such concentrated attention , as if it so fascinated him he could not leave it alone . |
| 7 | There was a time I might have tried , back eight years or so , but there was never any chemistry . |
| 8 | They 'd , they had to because there were , they got , when , after the union was formed you know , they were having the rights er but and I think really the hours they put in and the type of work they deserved it , but erm there was a time you know when the bosses were bossy sort of thing , and er and you adhered to that , because you did n't know anything different until erm the unions started up , but erm I know there were one or two processions you know and peer rights and all this that and the other , but erm on the whole it 's er it 's been an eventful life in , in some ways , very eventful and it 's been interesting . |
| 9 | There was the time we were getting off a crowded coach on a day trip to Brighton and he pushed me back into my seat . |
| 10 | There was the time we gave out some information about a stolen motor coach . |
| 11 | There was the time he kicked the ball in the house and smashed his mum 's good plates , but apart from that he was a decent youngster . |
| 12 | " There was the time I saw the bear , " said Marcus unguardedly , remembering the bear . |
| 13 | There was the time I took some of my work round for him to look at . |
| 14 | ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it . |
| 15 | And they are every time we went . |
| 16 | Instead of retirement being something to dread , it 's a time we are looking forward to . |
| 17 | It 's just not good enough , it 's every time he gets some new feathers and as an officer of the Roman Imperial Army he must not be without feathers . |
| 18 | But it 's the time it takes |
| 19 | It 's the time you shout at your boss and your colleagues because you 're sick of being taken for granted when you know you 've done three times the work of any man for half the recognition . |
| 20 | IT 'S the time you lean out of your car window when a man says something about women drivers and yell at them to ‘ come over here and say that . ’ |
| 21 | It 's the time you decide to take revenge for the wrongs that have been done to you when you were too nave and scared to do anything about it . |
| 22 | It 's the time you stamp on someone 's foot , hard , when they barge past you as you smile at them innocently and say sorry . |
| 23 | Well I gets him pulled out of the ditch and I brings him down and it 's the time I , I had Sarah boil up the boiler for the pigs . |
| 24 | It was a time which Conrad allowed himself to regret , through his characters , but not to exalt above other periods and other philosophies of life . |
| 25 | ‘ It was the time they started sending memos out to referees , and I said straight why did n't they just get on with administration and leave us to do the bloody job on the field . |
| 26 | It was grey and , and mustard , it sounds revolting but we , we were a bit , I suppose it was the time we had a purple carpet , we had an orange wall , do you remember that living room ? |
| 27 | But there again er it was the time we lived in and you had certain Well yards had their own way of trying to keep track of when a guy was in a toilet etcetera and sometimes you would have to hand in y your er your time ticket , to the toilet attendant , and you would give him this ticket and he would say right you are , you know , and mark down your number on a book and say to you , well you 've got seven minutes or something you know . |
| 28 | The only thing that ruined the game for me was the time it took to load each room . |
| 29 | The thing that delighted both of them was the time they had achieved — 54 minutes to complete 10 miles of very tricky going . |