Example sentences of "he [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 2 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 3 | When you show disapproval to a dog , reinforce this by ignoring him for a time . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
| 5 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 6 | John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time . |
| 7 | Gripped him to a time |
| 8 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |