Example sentences of "[prep] a time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |
| 2 | After a time it got me down , this continued evasion of me , it was like a form of torture . |
| 3 | Hari knocked on the door and after a time it was opened by an elderly lady who stared down at her with a frown . |
| 4 | After a time it stopped . |
| 5 | In Australia , all launching is done this way , and for a time it was common in the U.S.A. The disadvantages , however , of the low tow position are as follows . |
| 6 | Indeed , for a time it enabled the service to become an all HST operation so that some places actually had a better service . |
| 7 | For a time it seemed that Moran might choose to remain seated and force McQuaid to make his own way out of the house . |
| 8 | For a time it seemed as though the white working class had vanished . |
| 9 | For a time it became known as the Old Mill , and later Mill House . |
| 10 | I had read it hungrily in Lima when for a time it was the most substantial piece of luggage I possessed . |
| 11 | For a time it provided an umbrella beneath which the other organisations came together . |
| 12 | The sugar was identified as either ribose or deoxyribose : for a time it was believed that plant nucleic acids always contained ribose and animal nucleic acids deoxyribose . |
| 13 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 14 | At the same time , in political terms , Costa Rica has been drawn much more closely into the US sphere of influence during the 1980s , moving away from the neutral stance it previously took , so that for a time it was one of the host countries for the US-backed Nicaraguan Contras . |
| 15 | For a time it seems water was pumped straight from the canal and/or from a well perilously close to it ( see 1840 plan ) . |
| 16 | For a time it was almost open warfare between them . |
| 17 | Writer Brian Clark gave me the persona of a middle-class , middle-aged professional with a wife problem and for a time it became my trademark . |
| 18 | For a time it seemed that Christie 's had the inside track — they offered the Sharp apartment for sale in the late autumn of 1992 . |
| 19 | For a time it seemed as if the Everqueen of Avelorn was lost and the realm with her . |
| 20 | For a time it was held at Bologna , in the papal states , but the imperial representatives protested and the pope moved it back to Trent . |
| 21 | For a time it proved to be more militant than the BF . |
| 22 | We started many years ago by believing that innovation and uniqueness would provide the revenue to give us a good return , and for a time it did . |
| 23 | Gower , in at No. 5 , was left 18 not out , and for a time it seemed that the match had been swung . |
| 24 | For a time it was also home of the philosopher , David Hume . |
| 25 | For a time it overcame her , and she seemed to drift in black depths . |
| 26 | For a time it probably controlled the Adriatic coast from Rijeka to the Neretva and extended inland to the Hungarian border north of Zagreb and to the Drina valley in the south , where it faced the Byzantine empire and the Serbian principality of Raška . |
| 27 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 28 | For a time it will be as though the locusts had invaded parts of the heart of the garden of England . |
| 29 | For a time it even had an international dimension . |
| 30 | Once upon a time it would have been unthinkable for a band , especially one with such a reputation as Happy Mondays ’ , to apologise for their remarks without some sort of legal action being taken against them . |