Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I motor past , I imagine what a joy it must have been once upon a time to see him in action around the commons and village greens , stroking that famous beard and then scattering the pony and traps with his magnificent blows . |
| 2 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 3 | Its wines were once upon a time combined in the vat with those of Verzenay and it is from the reputation of that great village that Beaumont-sur-Vesle has wrested its misplaced status . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's only for a time , ’ Fred said on the last night of the tour . |
| 5 | Is it really suggested that it is in the best interests of the community that the proper approach to remuneration is purely on a time basis , and supply related to the question whether there are sufficient people prac-tising ? |
| 6 | " There was once upon a time " , he declared in 1901 , " when I was foolish enough to believe that the foreigners were the great curse of the British seamen . |
| 7 | The second big battle that Russell had in his unswerving pursuit of truth was with German idealism , mainly Hegelian idealism , which by a very curious aberration from the standard empiricism of the British people , took root in Oxford and Cambridge in the last half of the last century , and was almost for a time unchallenged . |