Example sentences of "[prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You get used to people 's misconceptions after a time . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ That was a sad song for a wedding , Angus , ’ said James Menzies after a time . |
| 3 | After a time he nerved himself to say to a couple of youngish men , ‘ Have you heard at all about a man called Menzies ? |
| 4 | After a time teaching in a Scottish school , Fettes , the degree got him a fellowship in mathematics at his own college of Magdalene ; where he remained the rest of his long life — teaching mathematics , holding various college offices , going every week to Emmanuel Congregational chapel , and becoming after a time one of its deacons or church officers . |
| 5 | After a time teaching in a Scottish school , Fettes , the degree got him a fellowship in mathematics at his own college of Magdalene ; where he remained the rest of his long life — teaching mathematics , holding various college offices , going every week to Emmanuel Congregational chapel , and becoming after a time one of its deacons or church officers . |
| 6 | And after a time they accepted it as their vocation to be childless . |
| 7 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |
| 8 | Even though as a graduate I was something of an oddity , I was absorbed into the background after a time and people treated me as one of them . |
| 9 | Only after a time do the principles on which the family is based — private property and slavery — come into conflict with the community and its commonality ; this occurs only when the family begins to move into the political domain . |
| 10 | The troops reluctantly went to their beds , among them a number who had never been to Pathfinders before , and others who were returning after a time away . |
| 11 | A year later , Margarete followed him into the darkness of Stalin 's police underworld , but after a time in a Siberian camp had the honour of forming part of a present from Stalin to Hitler , being one of several hundred German political prisoners ‘ of interest ’ handed over to the Gestapo near Brest-Litovsk in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact . |
| 12 | After a time I found myself frequently addressing him as ‘ Father ’ , so naturally did he touch the gentle docile side of me . |
| 13 | After a time I said , ‘ You do n't think that if he had an outside person looking after him , who he did n't mind telling him what to do because it was their job … ‘ |
| 14 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
| 15 | What you want is to find yourself slim and attractive after a time on an easy , satisfying diet . |
| 16 | After a time , ’ George said , ‘ the Cross Keys gets boring . ’ |
| 17 | On the first occasion something will go well , but maybe after a time you will see that it was not right . |
| 18 | After a time , when there was still no sign of Miss Harker , she relaxed sufficiently to knock out her extinct pipe against her boot and enquire of Biff as to whether he wanted to sit beside her . |
| 19 | Relations between Modi and Madame Hébuterne became so strained , with Jeanne refusing to give him up and Madame cursing him and his art , that after a time he moved away to stay in the Hôtel Tarelli , 5 Rue de France . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose you might be able to , after a time , if you wanted to , ’ he said . |
| 21 | After a time there came quick steps and it was opened a crack . |
| 22 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 23 | He said after a time , ‘ She — Maud — runs a Women 's Resource Centre in Lincoln . |
| 24 | It took all the courage he had to thrust his head and shoulders into the mouth of that entrance , but he closed his eyes and twisted and turned and after a time tumbled out into a great stone chamber , lit with a soft light of its own that dimmed the glitter of his shining key . |
| 25 | The youngsters learn that there is nothing to fear and , after a time , they also totally ignore the traffic noise . |
| 26 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 27 | After a time it got me down , this continued evasion of me , it was like a form of torture . |
| 28 | And , after a time , Gerda . |
| 29 | ‘ After a time demand just kept growing and growing and we did n't have the finance to boost production to keep pace with it . |
| 30 | However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other . |