Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 2 | The carburettor had clogged up a second time in the storm and they had had to wait until it was over . |
| 3 | Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up a fastest time of the day . |
| 4 | A break during the middle of the day and a return to the stables — apart from the question of distance from the field where the work was being done — would have meant unyoking and yoking up a second time for another stint in the afternoon ; and this would have lengthened the day without appreciably lengthening the working time . |
| 5 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 6 | These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time . |
| 7 | But we do talk and what I know is you are essentially a decent and totally wonderful human being and I 'll hang around a long time for you . |
| 8 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 9 | Part of the reporting and accountability process is filling in a monthly time sheet which reinforces the emphasis on tasks . |
| 10 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 11 | And secondly , we 'll be able to sort out a reasonable time for getting her home . |
| 12 | Charles drove out a short time later back to Highgrove . |
| 13 | Rattling in the chest ; every cold goes to the chest or nose and the catarrh hangs on a long time . |
| 14 | Both women had been surprised when he turned up a second time . |
| 15 | Many of us have a special tune or song that conjures up a particular time and place whenever we hear it , or brings back a flood of memories , but we may have no way of celebrating it . |
| 16 | Are we going out a third time ? |
| 17 | If the car was still moving , police could work out a safe time and location to intercept it . |
| 18 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 19 | She resisted the temptation to look back a second time . |
| 20 | And that I think , I feel is one of the loopholes in the Sale of Goods Act , because it does n't lay down a definite time limit . |
| 21 | In such circumstances , if the Bank wishes to sell the stock it is holding over a reasonable time period , it will often be unable to avoid reducing its price . |
| 22 | Blaina always felt that they had the ability to go up last season so , to ensure that they do not miss out a second time , a new team manager was recruited and given the task of harnessing the club 's talent . |
| 23 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 24 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 25 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 26 | The meeting broke up a short time after , a bewildered Hoskyns leaving more convinced than ever that change would have to be wholesale . |
| 27 | In 1936 the British began to plan colonial broadcasting for indigenous people , but these plans were shelved when world war broke out a second time . |
| 28 | We climbed up again and rolled down a second time , Mom sighing and giggling again , again . |
| 29 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
| 30 | This is the average number of hours that each worker is willing to supply over a given time period . |