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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a time " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	As for Dawson , he almost ignored it , and me for a time .
2	I thought he and you , both of you , had deceived me about your relationship — the way Suzanna and Raich deceived me for a time .
3	Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time .
4	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 .
5	Formula feeds without lactose are available , and your doctor may be able to prescribe one for you for a time , if your baby has had gastroenteritis and continues to have colic or diarrhoea afterwards .
6	Now , you worked for the erm the tenants ' action group , did n't you for a time ?
7	I wo n't be in touch with you for a time and I do n't want you starting a panic . ’
8	Failure to do so may result in decree being granted against you without a time to pay direction .
9	We regret having to disturb you at a time when you are busy , but the matter is important . ’
10	‘ Look , I 'm terribly sorry , ’ continued Blanche , ‘ to have to come back and see you at a time like this , Mr Lancaster — ’
11	I 'm sorry to have to ask you at a time like this — ’
12	Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time .
13	Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time .
14	When you show disapproval to a dog , reinforce this by ignoring him for a time .
15	‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’
16	Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder .
17	John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time .
18	He left her for a time to find prey and brought back a hare from the moorland tops , tearing it up and gently feeding her with parts of it .
19	Artegall remains with her for a time and restores order :
20	Gripped him to a time
21	He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion .
22	One friend who watched their relationship deteriorate points to Prince Charles 's disinterest and total lack of respect for her at a time when Diana badly needed help .
23	But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time .
24	There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’
25	Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) .
26	As Sir Alan Richmond recalls it : ‘ we were very hot on sandwich courses , almost dogmatic about it for a time ’ .
27	Even now Maggie remembered the making of it as a time of rare delight : when all the people of her life came together and did something for her .
28	Norma remembers it as a time of great happiness tinged with much sadness , for the pub was adopted by the Canadians and Americans stationed at Middleton St George .
29	When Tallis rode up this narrow track she sent stones tumbling to the glittering water below her , and at a certain height she stopped to listen to the sound , recognizing it from a time in childhood , from a time when she had summoned images of another world , and Harry had called to her for help .
30	if possible you want to avoid that , so you do n't want to , and , and you certainly do n't want to leave it until a time when you have been taken sick and you ca n't do anything about it .