Example sentences of "[prep] a time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you want is to find yourself slim and attractive after a time on an easy , satisfying diet . |
| 2 | The dog may well overcome its initial fear , and start to feed after a time on its own . |
| 3 | After a time at Wells Theological College he was ordained deacon in 1877 and became his father 's curate at St John 's church , Bishop 's Hull , near Taunton . |
| 4 | A year later , Margarete followed him into the darkness of Stalin 's police underworld , but after a time in a Siberian camp had the honour of forming part of a present from Stalin to Hitler , being one of several hundred German political prisoners ‘ of interest ’ handed over to the Gestapo near Brest-Litovsk in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 6 | In political terms the myth preserves some dim historical elements of a time during the Predynastic Period when Egypt was divided into two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt , each with its own ruler . |
| 7 | We have two signed hardback copies from Hodder & Stoughton of A Time To Dance to give away . |
| 8 | Charlie was taking a hell of a time about coming . |
| 9 | I 've had a hell of a time on this tour , you know . |
| 10 | He watched me , smiling but sharp , and for some reason — for no reason — I was reminded of a time at school when I had tried to make one friend betray another , and failed . |
| 11 | Besides which it 's a heck of a time for Noorda to be discussing succession — when so much of what can be accomplished with Unix seems to depend on his personal touch . |
| 12 | To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear ! |
| 13 | ‘ Well , to tell the truth , John , I am having a devil of a time with a contract in Cirencester . |
| 14 | I hope I 'm not being facetious , but they 'll have a hell of a time with him … |
| 15 | he panicked and they had a hell of a time with him because he panicked in there , in the hospital and there was a , going berserk and that but you see daddy did n't , oh there 's nothing |
| 16 | But I was thinking , looking at them — ’ he gestured towards the tourists — ‘ seeing them in a group , it reminded me of a time in cadet school . |
| 17 | CAPRICORN — VERY few Capricorns have had a whale of a time in the past few years . |
| 18 | Have a whale of a time in San Diego |
| 19 | Aristotle knows of a time in which the constitution of Massalia had been even more oligarchic than it was in his time ( Pol . |
| 20 | It 's a celebration of a time in the 30 's when to forget the depression , you put on your taps to go into your dance . |
| 21 | He mused for a time over alternative means of strengthening control , even on the possibility of a Minister replacing Citrine as chairman , but in the end he accepted the logic of the independent Morrisonian public corporation on which Labour 's nationalisation had ostensibly been based . |
| 22 | Guatemala has relied heavily on external aid , especially from the United States , though this was suspended for a time under the Carter administration because of Guatemala 's human rights record . |
| 23 | Relations between the two were complex , very close for a time during the war . |
| 24 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 25 | Canterbury was the senior court and for a time during the Commonwealth period — between 1655 and 1660 — all wills were proved there . |
| 26 | She recalled the Italian prisoners-of-war in their unsoldierly uniforms who had worked on the estate for a time towards the end of the war ; she made civil mention of another of Leon 's countrymen who had sold ice-cream on Norwich market when she was a girl . |
| 27 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 28 | In order to appreciate something which is above and beyond ourselves we have to rid ourselves for a time of our sophistication and , in the words of Jesus Christ , become as little children again . |
| 29 | Despite the entry for a time of media conglomerates such as the Mirror Group and Thomsons into the West African press , I think it is still fair to say that the primary motivation for producing a newspaper in Nigeria is political rather than commercial . |
| 30 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |