Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In it he described a succession of his dreams over a period of thirty years , which seemed to show glimpses of the future , and provided a theory of time to account for them . |
| 2 | The three of them entered a place outside time , on a day of such stillness and heat . |
| 3 | He devoted a lot of time to the personal relationships of politics and to conducting them in a mollifying , unhurried way . |
| 4 | For example , he may be told that his alibi relates to a period between 2 and 5 p.m. last Thursday , when he left the refectory after lunch and took a train to a named neighbouring town and visited a friend in time for tea . |
| 5 | ‘ It seemed a waste of time . ’ |
| 6 | It seemed a waste of time to the sergeant and a mood of depression began to cloak him again . |
| 7 | We would have long , complicated discussions whenever the days allowed a stretch of time between us . |
| 8 | The Company had been under an obligation to complete the line by 15 August 1905 , but obtained an extension of time when it was discovered that the power supply from Beckenham would not be ready until I April 1906 . |
| 9 | This , I must admit , became a bore in time but now nothing could spoil my enchantment . |
| 10 | A voice which ordered the clocks back , which made a nonsense of time . |
| 11 | Ahmed : I must say that I did n't think much of the group when it was first set up because f felt that it wasted a lot of time whinging about all the things that were ‘ being handed to the Black workers on a plate because anti-racism was currently fashionable ’ . |
| 12 | Although apprentices wasted a lot of time in their early years , most of them had picked up enough of the trade to be useful typesetters long before the seven years were up . |
| 13 | ( iii ) Some individuals , when eligible for randomisation , requested a period of time in convalescence before agreeing to participate . |
| 14 | As it happens Ive got a lot of time for honest people like Mr Bassett . |
| 15 | I think you 've also got ta look at it from the kid 's point of view and perhaps I 'm wrong here but , you know when you think , I mean , the these are going to be done very , you know er i i we got a sort of time limit , and kids are going to be told during perhaps a two week period |
| 16 | Passengers were ordered to fasten seat belts and some received oxygen as the pilot began a race against time to land the plane before the screen blew out . |
| 17 | After that we spent a lot of time practising in what later became Riverside Studios . |
| 18 | During that period , I spent a lot of time with Calvin Mark Lee , basically because he was Lou Reisner 's assistant , and he and I got on really well . |
| 19 | She told me that Tony spent a lot of time making passes at her , but she was horrible flirtatious and very beautiful . |
| 20 | We spent a lot of time in the National Gallery and at the Tate , and wrote some poems about the pictures there , including Verrocchio 's Tobias and the Angel , Piero di Cosima 's Mythological Subject and Titian 's Christ Appearing to the Magdalen — Noli me Tangere , whose theme had a special significance for me now : Dana was Christ , and I was the Magdalen . |
| 21 | We spent a lot of time in the mountains . |
| 22 | For a start , I spent a lot of time on my own , or with London friends . |
| 23 | The townspeople also spent a lot of time scribbling on walls — love letters , advertisements , sexual boasts and political slogans ( ’ Vote for Lucius , he is an honest man ’ ) — while a mortgage on wax was also discovered under the ash . |
| 24 | Cameron spent a lot of time sitting at his piano with the lid down , his fingers resting on the wood , whistling unconsciously . |
| 25 | I realised that many did drugs , so I spent a lot of time in the drug community before hand , so that once I hooked up with the women I could move back and forth . |
| 26 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |
| 27 | Although they were all very different ( Boy spent a lot of time noticing the differences in their physiques , techniques , cars and living rooms ) , they were also all the same in one respect . |
| 28 | Stirling himself spent a lot of time in Cairo wheedling supplies and planning the first operation . |
| 29 | ‘ I spent a lot of time attending to it , but I ran all the way , which is good enough , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Students spent a lot of time travelling ( walking and even running ) from one lecture to another in various parts of London , and it was increasingly demanded that they should find within the walls of the College all that they required , or that they should at least pay a fee that would entitle them as of right , rather than for charity 's sake , to enter medical lectures . |