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 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |
3 | 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | For a long time she would n't tell us . |
8 | ‘ 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 . |
9 | ‘ She will have well-ordered meals nicely presented , and for a short time she will mix with the other patients . |
10 | ‘ 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 . |
11 | ‘ If I summon all my strength , for a short time I can act against her spells , ’ she whispered . |
12 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
13 | In any event , if he does not reject the goods within a reasonable time he will be deemed to have accepted them . |
14 | 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 |
15 | 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 . |
16 | In a short time it will bear clouted cream laid over it . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |