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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
| 6 | Yes , she worked here for a time . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Franz Kafka lived here for a time . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | He struck out at them and soared upwards and they fell away for a time . |
| 11 | The ‘ Penis Landscape ’ controversy fell conveniently at a time when something had to give at the ailing NME . |
| 12 | He could n't believe it went ahead at a time when the firm was in financial trouble . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | Clinical investigations produced evidence that 75% of the women questioned who developed cellulite , did so at a time of hormonal change . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing will come of nothing ’ , as King Lear said once upon a time . |
| 17 | She might never have ironed shirts , but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises , little presents . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He stood there for a time , head bowed and in the end , simply said no . |