Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a short time he called back . |
| 2 | After a short time he asked if he could have a whisky and soda , and when the ingredients were brought tried to pour a drink for the King . |
| 3 | He admired the company 's pre-war products — efficient little sports cars with something of the modern Lotus spirit about them — more than any other car , and for a long time he used Astons on the road . |
| 4 | For a long time he was obsessed by the image of them in bed together . |
| 5 | For a long time he gazed into the depths of the rice , muttering . |
| 6 | For a long time he had held the envelope in his chubby fingers and close to his face . |
| 7 | In time Michael too came to accept their centrality , although for a long time he asked when he could go home to his parents . |
| 8 | My husband thought they were a failure and felt embarrassed about them , and for a long time he would n't let me see them . |
| 9 | A terrible knowledge had been swelling slowly in the Padre 's mind , like a sweet , poisonous fruit , which for a long time he had not dared to taste . |
| 10 | For a long time he said nothing . |
| 11 | For a long time he discussed with his lords in private what should be done with me . |
| 12 | For a long time he remained bent over his hands without uttering any form of prayer . |
| 13 | For a long time he remained motionless like this , his body arched backward , his teeth clenched , his lips drawn back in a silent rictus of ecstatic agony . |
| 14 | For a long time he stood in front of the town map , gazing at it as though he would memorise its every feature , and when he turned away it was to ask for a cup of coffee . |
| 15 | For a long time he had wondered about the history of this little family , now it looked as though he was going to find out . |
| 16 | But , before he was able to put a name to it , something hit him on the back of the head , and for a long time he knew no more . |
| 17 | For a long time he lay awake , feeling the vibration of Garvey 's snores clear through the trembling planks . |
| 18 | But surely to if you 've been working with your partner for a long time he 's gon na it anyway |
| 19 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
| 20 | For a short time he was buried at Cambridge at the Military Cemetery , but since then I 've checked and he has been sent , his body sent back home . |
| 21 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 22 | In the case of contracts creating continuing or recurrent liabilities incident to the disposition or holding of property , such as a settlement or a leasehold tenancy , the infant , on attaining full age , becomes bound unless within a reasonable time he takes steps to repudiate liability . |
| 23 | In any event , if he does not reject the goods within a reasonable time he will be deemed to have accepted them . |
| 24 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 25 | In a short time he was going to get very sick . |
| 26 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |
| 27 | In a short time he became disillusioned , not with the movement itself but with the P.N.M. leadership . |
| 28 | Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end . |
| 29 | At a certain time he would drive past that house , as he did every second day , and the position of his driver 's window , fully up , half-lowered or fully down , would convey to the watcher the thing he needed to know . |