Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] time in " in BNC.

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1 In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers .
2 A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed .
3 ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly .
4 For ‘ Paris ’ add Prague , London , Venice , anywhere beautiful and foreign and not of the everyday , and for ‘ young man ’ insert ‘ or middle aged woman ’ and for ‘ lived ’ and ‘ or visited at a time in your life when you most needed it . ’
5 I studied for a time in Paris , Padua and Salerno . ’
6 The second is the language related to the time in question : for example , Old English , Norman French and Medieval Latin .
7 A recent correspondence printed in the Regimental Association journal Mars and Minerva alluded to the time in Operation Houndsworth when three aircraft had left from Fairford for the Morvan .
8 Later research has shown that some of the statements in that paper do not agree with records made at the time in the laboratory notebooks of some of the people concerned .
9 The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace .
10 She danced for a time in Pavlova 's company , and returned home in 1928 with the ambition of developing ballet in her native land .
11 The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) .
12 This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left .
13 Margaret Clifton taught for a time in England , and then at the British Institute School in Madrid .
14 In years with more bees , there is clearly a different quality of pollination and this varies with the time in the season considered , but poorer quality pollination at other times is better than none , so that specialization with one pollinator per plant species is unlikely to evolve .
15 On leaving school Herbert joined his father as an engineering apprentice , and also worked for a time in the mechanical engineering laboratories of the City and Guilds Technical College in Finchley , London .
16 His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television .
17 I went from a er boy 's school and all that that implied at the time in England , strict discipline , uniforms , that sort of thing , to er High School , a mixed High School in Ohio where the atmosphere was totally different , much more relaxed , much more friendly .
18 You have attempted to schedule LIFESPAN RDBI to run at a time in the past .
19 During the 1890s , Millbottom was run for a time in conjunction with Days Mill .
20 Its entrance was discovered in 1950 and two years later this deepest of all gouffres acquired a sad celebrity with the death there of Marcel Loubens , a Belgian speleologist , who was badly injured deep underground but could not be got to the surface quickly enough to save his life , a story I dimly remember reading at the time in newspapers .
21 He had been stationed for a time in a war hospital , once a lunatic asylum .
22 I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ .
23 IBM 's main manufacturing base in Europe was West Germany , a fact which was doubtless emphasized at the time in Bonn .
24 He had lived for a time in England , and we discussed whether to conduct the session in English or German .
25 He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex .
26 If Country Jacobitism had for a time in the early 1690s represented an alliance of disillusioned Whigs and Tories , it nevertheless ended up as a platform which drew support almost exclusively from Tories .
27 ‘ 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 .
28 Christ , as God , was omniscient , his outlook not limited by the time in which he lived .
29 She had to sell her farm and work for a time in a department store .
30 She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter .
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