Example sentences of "[prep] a time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 2 | Mr. Arlidge 's argument is as follows : The word ‘ defer ’ in this context means ‘ put off ’ or ‘ postpone ’ or ‘ delay ’ and that if a trial takes place after a time which is obviously longer than that normally required for the preparation of a trial of that nature , then there has been the kind of delay prohibited by the statute . |
| 3 | And after a time they accepted it as their vocation to be childless . |
| 4 | But the scent was old and after a time they went on again . |
| 5 | ‘ Oscar Wilde once said that children begin by loving their parents ; after a time they judge them ; rarely , if ever , do they forgive them . |
| 6 | After a time they used me as a courier : everybody else on the staff thought they were being watched . |
| 7 | After a time we turned inland on a rough track which climbed through ravines into the desert hills . |
| 8 | After a time we were beyond his own district , and he greeted only the other boatmen , asking them about currents and winds . |
| 9 | After a time we were invited into the harem in the rear of the house . |
| 10 | After a time we came upon three moored feluccas , with only their masts visible against the sky . |
| 11 | After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line . |
| 12 | After a time we heard the sound of feet , and young Reggie 's voice shouting , ‘ Hullo , hullo ! |
| 13 | After a time we come to think of them as old friends . ’ |
| 14 | After a time she had a stroke which semiparalysed her . |
| 15 | After a time she sighed and said , ‘ It is true enough . |
| 16 | I said hello , and after a time she remembered who I was . |
| 17 | After a time she said : ‘ You did all right back there … followed the rules . ’ |
| 18 | After a time she heard him talking to someone on the telephone , but , when he did n't reappear immediately , gathered that he had no news for her . |
| 19 | He began to scratch into the soft earth beside the body , until after a time his claws scraped against something smooth and firm . |
| 20 | After a time there came quick steps and it was opened a crack . |
| 21 | After a time there was a click as Rico cradled the receiver . |
| 22 | After a time he nerved himself to say to a couple of youngish men , ‘ Have you heard at all about a man called Menzies ? |
| 23 | Relations between Modi and Madame Hébuterne became so strained , with Jeanne refusing to give him up and Madame cursing him and his art , that after a time he moved away to stay in the Hôtel Tarelli , 5 Rue de France . |
| 24 | After a time he went to the toilet . |
| 25 | After a time he was forced to stop , panting . |
| 26 | After a time he awoke again and asked me what I wanted . |
| 27 | And then , after a time he had n't . |
| 28 | After a time he began to whisper in a voice that tried now to be soft and gentle , in complete contrast to his alarm calls : ‘ Come on , Minch , you ca n't really be so ill that you ca n't show me your face just for a moment , or let me hear the ruffle of one of your wings . |
| 29 | After a time he switched on the television . |
| 30 | After a time he raised his head . |