Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you so trapped in a time of royalty and titles that you ca n't envisage a world in which a woman has obligations ? ’ |
| 2 | They measure the seasons by the changing day length , as may be demonstrated by keeping migratory birds under artificial day length conditions : they then migrate at a time dictated by their experienced day length , rather than the time of year . |
| 3 | In reflection , Nicholson remembers that apart from the task of writing a film about a new subject on which there was very little in the way of written research material , it also came at a time when he was going through his divorce . |
| 4 | The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) . |
| 5 | By leaning her back against it and pedalling with her feet she could move it forwards inches at a time . |
| 6 | Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ? |