Example sentences of "[prep] a time [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time Maxim asked : ‘ Did you ever live that sort of life ? — for any length of time ? ’ |
| 2 | After a time Milhaez began to sing and the boat seemed to be carried upriver on his voice . |
| 3 | He had stuck labels in various places so that Willie would associate an object with a word , until after a time Willie labelled them himself . |
| 4 | After a time David relaxed and joined in , complimenting Felicity , chaffing her husband and turning often to Julia to remind-her of earlier conversations they had had or to ask her opinion . |
| 5 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 6 | After a time Boldwood started to hope that one day , if Bathsheba remarried at all , she would marry him . |
| 7 | After a time Creggan felt no more fear , merely weariness . |
| 8 | For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates . |
| 9 | For a time things had improved ; his wife had been a foolish woman , concerned only with her appearance , social engagements and feminine trivia , but she had performed her conjugal duties satisfactorily . |
| 10 | Old Aaron Kleiber built up a little tailoring business , and for a time Ruth had worked for him as a seamstress , together with Sarah Vogel , another immigrant , and Rosie O'Dell , Connor and Sean 's half-sister . |
| 11 | For a time Protestants attended , but hopes that the Council might reunify the Western Church — the Eastern was scarcely considered — were dashed . |
| 12 | For a time Rank produced films that really could compete against American pictures . |
| 13 | Oil shale was also called ‘ boghead coal ’ , and for a time Scotland supplied ninety per cent of the world 's shale oil output . |
| 14 | For a time Stanley worked in collaboration with an Oxford plasterer , Thomas Roberts , at the Radcliffe Camera ( c .1744 ) . |
| 15 | Although for a time Simone tagged along in his life , he never took the affair seriously . |
| 16 | For a time Charles surprised his friends by his enthusiasm for the nursery routine . |
| 17 | As a Times leader put it : ‘ A man of genius in his own field , he must be counted among those who have deserved well of his kind and his name will be remembered in honour . ’ |
| 18 | The 1989 Act needed to be much firmer , with a time limit imposed , if government is serious about equalising the workforce . |
| 19 | Once upon a time muezzins had had to climb such towers to call the people to prayer , the little round room at the top giving resonance , enlarging the human voice . |
| 20 | Once upon a time magistrates had been dull , stolid figures , worthy but uninspiring , above all remote and anonymous . |
| 21 | Once upon a time man lived by hunting and by gathering . |
| 22 | Once upon a time Fenna had brooded on a hoard for so many years and with such desire that it had quickened and grown , diamonds breeding and bringing up their young under his weight . |
| 23 | ( There is evidence , though , that once upon a time Mars enjoyed running water . ) |