Example sentences of "a [adj] time he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if he borrows the same amount a second time he becomes liable to a second charge . |
| 2 | when I visit him a second time he did n't turn up at all |
| 3 | In time Michael too came to accept their centrality , although for a long time he asked when he could go home to his parents . |
| 4 | For a long time he lay awake , feeling the vibration of Garvey 's snores clear through the trembling planks . |
| 5 | But , before he was able to put a name to it , something hit him on the back of the head , and for a long time he knew no more . |
| 6 | For a long time he gazed into the depths of the rice , muttering . |
| 7 | For a long time he said nothing . |
| 8 | For a long time he had held the envelope in his chubby fingers and close to his face . |
| 9 | A terrible knowledge had been swelling slowly in the Padre 's mind , like a sweet , poisonous fruit , which for a long time he had not dared to taste . |
| 10 | For a long time he had wondered about the history of this little family , now it looked as though he was going to find out . |
| 11 | For a long time he discussed with his lords in private what should be done with me . |
| 12 | He admired the company 's pre-war products — efficient little sports cars with something of the modern Lotus spirit about them — more than any other car , and for a long time he used Astons on the road . |
| 13 | For a long time he stood in front of the town map , gazing at it as though he would memorise its every feature , and when he turned away it was to ask for a cup of coffee . |
| 14 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
| 15 | For a long time he remained bent over his hands without uttering any form of prayer . |
| 16 | For a long time he remained motionless like this , his body arched backward , his teeth clenched , his lips drawn back in a silent rictus of ecstatic agony . |
| 17 | I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England . |
| 18 | When Pitt wants to have a good time he invites his ‘ little group of buddies ’ , including actor Dermot Mulroney — a whiz on the cello — over for an old-fashioned ‘ hootinanny ’ jam session . |
| 19 | In the case of contracts creating continuing or recurrent liabilities incident to the disposition or holding of property , such as a settlement or a leasehold tenancy , the infant , on attaining full age , becomes bound unless within a reasonable time he takes steps to repudiate liability . |
| 20 | Working swiftly , in quite a short time he filled the case , which he then snapped shut . |
| 21 | After a short time he asked if he could have a whisky and soda , and when the ingredients were brought tried to pour a drink for the King . |
| 22 | In a short time he became disillusioned , not with the movement itself but with the P.N.M. leadership . |
| 23 | After a short time he called back . |
| 24 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |
| 25 | A third time he disappeared . |