Example sentences of "a time [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This courtesy , tenderly performed , seemed right out of place to me , but it went down okay with Mrs Davis , who peered up at Fielding for quite a time before she said , |
| 2 | Although that session had not given any indication of why her water phobia had begun , at least it had shown her that there was a time before it existed . |
| 3 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 4 | The innocent words suddenly filled me with horror : there had been a time before I was born , a time when I had not existed , a time when I lacked individual consciousness — this last being the most horrifying notion . |
| 5 | The son of a working-class family , Doisneau developed an early interest in art and was apprenticed as an engraver for a time before he ‘ escaped ’ to work for the sculptor and photographer , Andre Vigneau . |
| 6 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 7 | Unless you are enormously determined , it is far better to make small changes and build upon them , tackling one area at a time before you go on to the next rather than trying to lose weight , give up smoking , avoid alcohol and set yourself a punishing exercise regime all at once . |
| 8 | In a large frying or saute pan put a slab of butter ( I use a good quality butter and find that it pays to prepare 2 lb. at a time since it keeps almost indefinitely and is immeasurably superior to fresh butter for frying bread , croquettes , rissoles , fish cakes , veal escalopes , fish à la meunière and a score of other tricky cooking jobs ) . |
| 9 | There 's also support for multiple columns , although you ca n't see more than one column at a time unless you 're in Page Preview mode . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me , why do I have to pay my informants a quid or more a time while you have snouts who could buy and sell both of us and who rush to buy you drinks whenever you appear ? ’ |
| 11 | F ten takes you through the document one sentence at a time so you can work your way through the document one sentence at a time . |
| 12 | After the man 's death he told Jeannie of his gift , and said he would give her a little at a time so she did n't drink the lot in one enormous spree . |
| 13 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 14 | The improvement in medical knowledge and other changes of recent times made marriage a more stable institution for a time than it was in the Middle Ages . |
| 15 | Knitters who have not practised the partial shaping may be casting off one stitch at a time as they were first taught to do or casting off in this way to retain a firm shoulder seam . |
| 16 | : You can only really see one eye at a time as they 're right on the side of the head . |
| 17 | You probably found the passage difficult , and it would have been even more difficult presented one word at a time as it was in the Dooling and Lachman experiment . |
| 18 | These rules mean that it might benefit the owner of a topography right for him to sit on that right until such a time as it can be exploited to its full potential as long as this is done a reasonable period before the 15 years have expired . |
| 19 | If you do give it , give it for as short a time as you can . |
| 20 | Then try to think of one thing at a time as you write . |
| 21 | I hope he had as good a time as I did . |
| 22 | I 'll stay as short a time as I can . ’ |
| 23 | The coloured boxer looked into the referee 's eyes , then watched his fingers ; he was raising them one at a time as he counted . |
| 24 | The third semi was very close ( 0.55 secs ) between Crichlow ( Canada ) , Herbert ( USA ) and Vincente ( Spain ) , the latter being lucky to get a time as he fell out of his K1 crossing line . |
| 25 | She managed to walk with a reasonable degree of grace and dignity till she reached the back door , then scuttled inside as though her very life depended on it , taking the back stairs two at a time as she rushed to the bedroom to find a robe . |
| 26 | What I 'll do , I 'll pass you the box and then you can take them out a bit at a time cos I 've sorted them . |
| 27 | ‘ Over a period of one year we were continually evaluating our frac pack job performance , changing one component at a time until we achieved well performance that has virtually eliminated problems caused by damage near the well bore , ’ Park says . |
| 28 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 29 | She told of one man who was harangued for ninety minutes at a time until he had a nervous breakdown and quit . |
| 30 | He flicked quickly through to the section covering Surrey , then proceeded a page at a time until he reached his goal . |