Example sentences of "a time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after a time they accepted it as their vocation to be childless . |
| 2 | Many a time they had drunk thus together , as boys , as youths , as men , and come out under the same starlit sky to walk beside each other up the familiar High Street where every house was a landmark and every face part of a shared history . |
| 3 | Nicholson saw them around Sunset Strip and for a time they were joined by Elvis Presley , who had seen Rebel Without a Cause forty-four times and could speak Dean 's lines word perfect . |
| 4 | Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after . |
| 5 | Fabric boots then multiplied , and for a time they looked like sleeping the market , but their disadvantages in poor conditions did not offset their greater comfort in good ones , and some substantial improvement in waterproofing was needed before this could take place . |
| 6 | Although for a time they were merely raiders , these Celtic cousins had ambitions to acquire land and permanent residence , and were as ready to fight the Picts as to co-operate with them . |
| 7 | But the scent was old and after a time they went on again . |
| 8 | ‘ Oscar Wilde once said that children begin by loving their parents ; after a time they judge them ; rarely , if ever , do they forgive them . |
| 9 | And er I remember we used to get the gas then , and er that was at a time they were used have an electric lamp we had had one in the stall , you see ? |
| 10 | After all , even when teachers are teaching their students to communicate in one language at a time they need to examine the principles of communication . |
| 11 | She had always known that Finn would reappear , because for a time they always did , never quite sure that the new woman was an improvement on the old one , keeping their options open . |
| 12 | For a time they trudged on in a silence punctuated by occasional reminiscences of the film . |
| 13 | After a time they used me as a courier : everybody else on the staff thought they were being watched . |
| 14 | Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step |
| 15 | Before they lost Richard Biddle with a hamstring injury , the Quakers looked like they could actually match the ex-Premier League side and for a time they promised to take the lead . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And he said , you know they do alright at ten pound a time they have when they 're preach in those chapels , now I do n't know , I 've no idea and good luck to them if they do ! |
| 18 | So wha who and he started getting all those carry on like that all one at a time they walk out . |
| 19 | at a time they had , they had a lot from |
| 20 | Instead of retirement being something to dread , it 's a time we are looking forward to . |
| 21 | Many of the people on my courses on dying , for example , had never really come to terms with the inevitability of death in their own lives , and many a time we had to stop to allow distressed and upset people to leave the room . |
| 22 | For a time we small cadets guarded railway bridges , with empty carbines , but were more frightened of the dark than of possible German invaders . |
| 23 | For a time we fought against the gathering shadows , but to little avail . |
| 24 | After a time we turned inland on a rough track which climbed through ravines into the desert hills . |
| 25 | After a time we were beyond his own district , and he greeted only the other boatmen , asking them about currents and winds . |
| 26 | After a time we were invited into the harem in the rear of the house . |
| 27 | For a time we could see nothing but high endless desert . |
| 28 | After a time we came upon three moored feluccas , with only their masts visible against the sky . |
| 29 | After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line . |
| 30 | We 're advancing all the time and I think there may came a time we wo n't use animals at all for medical research , but at , up till now we needed to use animals for medical research . |