Example sentences of "[prep] a time [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had potatoes in there for a time but we had to keep hoeing all the weeds out . |
| 2 | Frustrations will cloud your horizons for a time but you will shake them off and emerge well pleased with your efforts . |
| 3 | I wo n't be in touch with you for a time and I do n't want you starting a panic . ’ |
| 4 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 5 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 6 | Instructors can choose either to discuss trainee 's answers and the provided answers one story at a time or they can choose to ask the trainees to complete all three stories before discussion . |
| 7 | And they go down at a bit at a time or it 'll go all the way down . |
| 8 | Only one or two young are born at a time and they are transported in an unusual manner by the mother — by hanging on to her greatly elongated teats . |
| 9 | They go out in covnoys of 10 and 12 at a time and they 'll have no officers or senior NCO 's accompanying them |
| 10 | Cuddling Flossie close , Robert said : ‘ I 'm feeding her a little bit at a time and she is looking much better already . ’ |
| 11 | Here took place the famous séries , five to a season , each one lasting eight days , when 80 guests were invited at a time and it was in the drawing up of these guest lists that the Empress deployed all her social skills . |
| 12 | But because the scale was this funny thing of well two of them means one hundred , you 're going along two at a time and it happens so often . |
| 13 | I have n't taken more than a week off at a time and I need some rest . ’ |
| 14 | This guy who lives round the corner had just come out and he 'd started up in business again and he was laying it on me a gram at a time and I was doing it out in bags . |
| 15 | It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well . |
| 16 | Once colour is knitted at a time and you change colour every two rows . |
| 17 | You 're going up two squares at a time and you 're going one two three and it 's usually when you get to around where I tend to do it is erm sort of eight and ten . |
| 18 | It 's a replacement for the DOS Type command , except that you automatically get one screen full of information at a time and you can scroll backwards and forwards , and search for particular text . |
| 19 | if the lists have minimal pairs you can have the LH say one word at a time and you will have to decide which list it is from |
| 20 | the only battleship I know about is the girl friend go away for about three months at a time and you 'd say of where 's Norman , oh he 's er working and then we all knew he 's working for a he 'd put them in the computer systems right the way throughout the ships |