Example sentences of "in a [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 2 | In a short time we were thoroughly drenched and landed in Jura among what felt like " buckets of water . " |
| 3 | It always was a surprise , the pure majesty of the scene approaching the Alps , more especially in moonlight ; it seemed odd to me , whilst devouring this special panorama that in a short time we would be raining all the horrors of war down on people not seriously willing to fight . |
| 4 | In a short time it will bear clouted cream laid over it . |
| 5 | In a short time he was going to get very sick . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In a short time he became disillusioned , not with the movement itself but with the P.N.M. leadership . |
| 8 | Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end . |
| 9 | In a short time you 'll receive your new multipoint cashcard , and just a few days later a Great Escapes brochure displaying over 180 excellent hotels to choose from , together with your two FREE Great Escapes vouchers . |