Example sentences of "at a [adj] time [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |