Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fled Britain for a time to escape debts . |
| 2 | Anybody who visited America at the time when the exchange rate was two dollars to the pound will confirm that they could purchase a pound 's worth of goods for a dollar ; that is , at half the price they would pay at home . |
| 3 | Both areas , breaking and mending , engrossed Dostoevsky from the time when the shared convict existence of prison snapped him like a dry biscuit yet also made him new , so that in the closing words of The House of the Dead , with the knocking off of his fetters , the narrator greets ‘ a new life , voskresenie from the dead ’ . |
| 4 | At one level , June Braithwaite attacked Robert about the time he spent away from home and what he did and did not do for the children . |
| 5 | 681 to Malmesbury ( CS 59 : S 71 ) , and a certain Berhtwald , possibly the nephew of Aethelred , who befriended Wilfrid for a time c . |
| 6 | Mrs Dawson praised Sarah for the times she has popped in to see if she could help . |
| 7 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 8 | ‘ He just could n't believe there was that much money in the world and it was coming to him , ’ said Sybil at the time . |