Example sentences of "[prep] a time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first this was merely the usual paranoid rumour inevitable under a ruthless regime where informers abounded , but after a time a more imaginative version emerged . |
| 2 | After a time a magnificent escarpment of red and pink stone closed on the road from the east . |
| 3 | After a time a small boy emerged from the banana grove carrying a kerosene stove , a teapot , a glass , a home-made seisha and a bag of bread . |
| 4 | After a time a full yellow moon rose above the ridge of the eastern desert . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Here one problem of panels becomes clear : with all the best intentions , panel members may be considered to be specially interested in volunteering for , or accepting an invitation to join , a certain panel , and after a time the panel member can become rather too self-conscious and sophisticated . |
| 8 | After a time the shorter children become submerged and the number under water increases as the ranks go forward . |
| 9 | As it was no longer raining they had not taken shelter in any of the caves , but after a time the thin man out of sheer restlessness looked into the nearest and came out carrying a sack . |
| 10 | After a time the light flash alone will produce a jump : the person has learned the jump behaviour . |
| 11 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 12 | " And after a time , " went on Dandelion , " after a time the grass began to grow thin and the rabbits wandered everywhere , multiplying and eating as they went . |
| 13 | After a time the circuit should settle down to a state in which the usual combinations of inputs to the cell are relatively ineffective , while any unusual combination can still set off a strong response . |
| 14 | After a time the engines slowed and we could hear the wheel turning . |
| 15 | After a time the aunt noticed Conradin 's visits to the shed . |
| 16 | They were stopped outside the gate , of course , and after a time the sergeant on guard came out and spoke to them and they began an argument and it got very heated because this sergeant thought that the Americans were like knights of old rescuing a damsel in distress . |
| 17 | But after a time the book fell from his hand . |
| 18 | After a time the others go off to search for ‘ Smee ’ — but of course they do n't know who they are looking for . |
| 19 | ’ After a time the traffic stopped and the green man shone bright against the sickly pale grey of the noonday sky . |
| 20 | But after a time the right person could tie you down . |
| 21 | For a time a few gifted minds became a collective powerhouse , charged with a brilliance that still shines like a lighthouse from the badlands of ignorance . |
| 22 | Even knitting wool was on ration , but for a time a keen knitter could go into a shop and buy up hanks of thin darning wool ( un-rationed ) and use that to knit with , until some spoilsport in the Government ruined that idea by decreeing that all darning wool should be cut into approximately twenty inch lengths before it was put into the shops . |
| 23 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 24 | For a time a chorus of bells from the monastery seemed to peel in celebration each time I finished a pitch . |
| 25 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |
| 26 | For a time a battle raged between the supporters in each camp . |
| 27 | At the end of teaching , the long street towards the centre of Cullbridge was for a time a babble of noise , with scuffles , cap-snatching and schoolboy indecencies hurled from green-blazered groups on one side to green-blazered groups on the other . |
| 28 | Indeed , this became for a time a veritable obsession , giving rise in some academic circles to the idea of a whole new field of study , to be called ‘ psephology ’ , and in the lower reaches of political communication to the massive television coverage of national elections , in which precise calculations of ‘ swings ’ from one party to another and predictions of the eventual outcome of the electoral contest tended to overshadow any serious discussion of the substance of political conflicts . |
| 29 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 30 | Ahmed Ahmedi was at the airport and for a time no one knew what to do with me . |