Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I studied for a time in Paris , Padua and Salerno . ’ |
| 2 | Many years ago I worked as a Time and Motion Study ( Work Study ) officer in industry , where the question was always : why ca n't all workers produce the output achieved by the best workers ? |
| 3 | While I was there , I went for a time to a sangha , a Buddhist religious community . |
| 4 | erm to go to another famous bio-plan , I pondered for a time about why does the bio-plan of insects insist on having six legs , after all we do n't have six legs , why do insects have six legs ? |
| 5 | They clasped hands and held them clasped for a time . |
| 6 | She danced for a time in Pavlova 's company , and returned home in 1928 with the ambition of developing ballet in her native land . |
| 7 | The second daughter , Katarina ( Tinka ) , also graduated from the College , where she taught for a time . |
| 8 | She drifted for a time , warm , letting the feeling build , her hips barely stirring . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly . |
| 11 | They agreed on a time , and Tracey rang off . |
| 12 | It is much harder to say if the ruling merchant employer class was affected adversely , in the same way as its rural counterpart , by the need to pay higher wages , or by a reduction in markets for the commodities which they produced at a time of population decline . |
| 13 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
| 14 | Here , following the banner of reform , led by the gentlemen of that most aristocratic Whig Government , led by Lord Grey , Lord Melbourne , Lord John Russell , they saw for a time before them the high road to a better and fairer ordering of society . |
| 15 | Ealhfrith 's personal religious predilections need not necessarily have borne undertones of political dissatisfaction but the differences on ecclesiastical matters between father and son , coming as they did at a time of profound change in Oswiu 's former position of influence in southern England , probably reflected a crisis of potentially serious dimensions . |
| 16 | ’ So they romanced for a time , whispering on the edge of sleep , until a noise of footsteps , first a few and then large numbers , came from the road outside . |
| 17 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
| 18 | He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution . |
| 19 | However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) . |
| 20 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 21 | It occurred at a time when abolitionist leaders hoped for improved treatment of slaves in the West Indies but had not focused on emancipation as an objective and had not specifically propagandised for it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 24 | It came at a time when dislocation of the Latin American economies as a result of the First World War caused widespread unemployment and increasingly militant labour unrest . |
| 25 | It came at a time of growing interest among member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) in new sources for cheaper supplies of bananas , following the relaxation of the preferential access granted to certain African and Caribbean countries covered by the EC 's Lomé Convention agreement [ see pp. 37210-11 ] . |
| 26 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 27 | During the long ministry of Lord North ( 1770–82 ) he seemed for a time to have achieved this objective . |
| 28 | He arrived at a time when converging philosophical , political , scientific , and economic influences had inspired a number of English landowners to transform their estates into prosperous miniature centres for civilized living . |
| 29 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 30 | While studying theology at Oxford he joined for a time the household of Robert Grosseteste [ q.v. ] , bishop of Lincoln , probably through the good offices of Adam Marsh , who described him as ‘ active , discreet , full of goodwill and devoted to the cure of souls ’ ( Mon . |