Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 2 | Actually , I have begun to think that I do belong to a time , but it is separated by so many decades from theirs that I reproach myself . |
| 3 | You have appeared at a time when things are rather … odd . |
| 4 | I think one wants to go at a time when people still want you to stay , rather than stay until people want you to go . |
| 5 | There 's three players per team ( chosen before the match ) , but only one gets to play at a time ( plus a computer-controlled goalie ) . |
| 6 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 7 | Subtle changes take place , too , in the attitudes of some of her friends to whose circle she belonged when her husband was alive , which may lead her to feel rejected at a time when she needs to be accepted in her new role and to have her self-esteem strengthened . |
| 8 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 9 | Headhunting in Britain was imposed — seeming alien at first — in the search for remedies for Britain 's national corporate ills ; in America it had burgeoned at a time of growth and prosperity . |
| 10 | It had happened at a time when all I had to offer him was absolute misery for both of us . |
| 11 | He had lived for a time in England , and we discussed whether to conduct the session in English or German . |
| 12 | What had begun as a time saving essential has now become my hobby . |