Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a time " in BNC.

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1 I mean once upon a time nothing was , but I 've spent two and a half thousand pound if not more since I 've been off work .
2 Yes , she worked here for a time . ’
3 He struck out at them and soared upwards and they fell away for a time .
4 Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II .
5 None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed .
6 He could n't believe it went ahead at a time when the firm was in financial trouble .
7 He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find .
8 He stood there for a time , head bowed and in the end , simply said no .
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