Example sentences of "[vb past] a [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zen flashed his identification with contemptuous brevity and then allowed a little time for the mechanic 's fear to be fruitful and multiply . |
| 2 | They both spent a little time concealing a wad of wet blotting paper and seeds , then cutting small nicks for the cress to grow out of . |
| 3 | I spent a little time ‘ fishing ’ these to the back and either tying off , or sewing in . |
| 4 | It would have been inconsiderate , and the possibility was not discussed , although Groa , moving from hall to hall with her husband , took the chance to pack a few extra boxes with thick clothes and blankets , and spent a little time during her last call at Orphir studying the crucifix Bishop Jon had pinned over her bed and wondering whether or not it would be Christian to pray for a wind . |
| 5 | I very nearly took you then and there , standing up , in a cold dark cave … after that I needed a little time to sort through my feelings , sabiha tieghi … ’ |
| 6 | I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open . |
| 7 | I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping . |
| 8 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 9 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 10 | News concerning the development in style took a little time to percolate through to the country ; a sculptor carving a resurrection scene on a 1707 headstone outside the south door of Uffington church , Oxfordshire , continues to depict the gable-lidded coffin . |
| 11 | This took a little time during which I pondered uneasily on the possibility , however remote , of having to recognize the existence of additional progeny , and all that it would entail . |
| 12 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 13 | Dorothy had a lot of shopping to do and my daughter took a little time off school to take us around . ‘ |
| 14 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 15 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 16 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 17 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 18 | When she first joined the company , packing vitamins and herbal medicines three years ago , she took a little time to get used to the work . |
| 19 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 20 | It took a little time , but er , eventually he got it , and now I 'm delighted to say he 's one of the most organised managers on earth . |
| 21 | Film superstar Alan Rickman took a little time to settle comfortably into the stage mantle of Shakespeare 's much-wronged prince , as if the echo of his own voice was vying with King Hamlet 's exhortations to do the deed , but this soon gives way to a gentle yet powerful Hamlet . |
| 22 | It was fortunate that I had a little time to accustom myself to being in such a place and to the thought of seeing my father . |
| 23 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
| 24 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |