Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] time [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think there 's the stretching of it you see , I mean wire w after a certain time it would stretch a bit |
| 2 | My husband thought they were a failure and felt embarrassed about them , and for a long time he would n't let me see them . |
| 3 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 4 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 5 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p. 147 ) did approve of one book : ‘ This is the first book Émile will read ; for a long time it will form his whole library and it will always retain an honoured place . |
| 6 | For a long time she would n't tell us . |
| 7 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
| 8 | ‘ She will have well-ordered meals nicely presented , and for a short time she will mix with the other patients . |
| 9 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
| 10 | ‘ If I summon all my strength , for a short time I can act against her spells , ’ she whispered . |
| 11 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 12 | In any event , if he does not reject the goods within a reasonable time he will be deemed to have accepted them . |
| 13 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 14 | It always was a surprise , the pure majesty of the scene approaching the Alps , more especially in moonlight ; it seemed odd to me , whilst devouring this special panorama that in a short time we would be raining all the horrors of war down on people not seriously willing to fight . |
| 15 | In a short time it will bear clouted cream laid over it . |
| 16 | Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end . |
| 17 | In a short time you 'll receive your new multipoint cashcard , and just a few days later a Great Escapes brochure displaying over 180 excellent hotels to choose from , together with your two FREE Great Escapes vouchers . |
| 18 | At a certain time he would drive past that house , as he did every second day , and the position of his driver 's window , fully up , half-lowered or fully down , would convey to the watcher the thing he needed to know . |
| 19 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 20 | Obviously I will send this to both of you and if David is back in England at an appropriate time he might like to join me in discussions with the programmer . |
| 21 | At an ordinary time it would have been almost impossible to enter undetected , but tomorrow morning , when the Lord of Parfois brought home from France his forty knights and their followings , and the entire population of the castle came out to meet them and bring them in , then one more insignificant boy might very well slip unnoticed into the throng and get by the guard at the gate unchallenged . |
| 22 | At an appointed time they would all gather on the borders of the great outer lake for a picnic organised by the kind proprietress of the mansion . |
| 23 | Moreover , if Olwyn went to bed at an earlier time it would obviate the Jones ' need to reinforce aspects of her bad behaviour ( for example giving in to tantrums and providing positive attention for hitting ) . |