Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a time " in BNC.

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1 David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer .
2 The book begins with the 1950s , when baby manuals indexed ‘ fathers ’ as ‘ for fathers see mothers ’ , and men were ‘ angry ’ , ‘ tough ’ or ‘ queer ’ ; it ends with ‘ a new agenda for the 1990s ’ , described hopefully as a time when men join women in fighting for an end to exploitation of women at work and home , and the ‘ masculinity ’ we have known will come to a timely end .
3 Frenchman Roger Yves Bost , a member of the French World Gold Medal winning team in 1990 , scorched round in a time more fitting to a speed class .
4 Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship .
5 Twenty five minutes behind Pat at the finishing line was Personnel Training Adviser who came in with a time of three hours 40 minutes .
6 Anyway he came up to London , she went to London to be a nanny to this woman with three kids like , you know , two babies and a an older one and she said he came up at a time , he said , sorry , you know , got ta finish he 's got this girl pregnant !
7 Besides these major product innovations , the eurobond market has seen a plethora of subsidiary innovations , many of which have been one off or flourished only for a time .
8 None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed .
9 The annual report published by HMI has always been a loose-leaf , photocopied document , shoved out at a time designed least to embarrass Ministers .
10 Yes , she worked here for a time . ’
11 William Barnes , a distant Stanhope cousin , lived here for a time , but for most of its life it has been a farmhouse , which it remains .
12 Franz Kafka lived here for a time .
13 In time to come , will someone else walk these halls and remember the Wolfqueen who lived here for a time , but who brought the Cruithin out of hiding , and drove Medoc from the Bright Palace ?
14 He struck out at them and soared upwards and they fell away for a time .
15 The ‘ Penis Landscape ’ controversy fell conveniently at a time when something had to give at the ailing NME .
16 He could n't believe it went ahead at a time when the firm was in financial trouble .
17 A DP communiqué of March 11 looked forward to a time when Albanians would not " need to undertake dangerous adventures in search of a better future " .
18 Clinical investigations produced evidence that 75% of the women questioned who developed cellulite , did so at a time of hormonal change .
19 Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II .
20 Certainly there would have been no satisfaction in such behaviour if the would-be escaper had not for a time at any rate believed in himself
21 ‘ Nothing will come of nothing ’ , as King Lear said once upon a time .
22 She might never have ironed shirts , but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises , little presents .
23 He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find .
24 Set the temperature to a degree or two higher than that of the maintenance tank and place the female in this set up for a time to associate herself with the layout and hiding places .
25 He stood there for a time , head bowed and in the end , simply said no .
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