Example sentences of "[prep] a time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After a time the shorter children become submerged and the number under water increases as the ranks go forward . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After a time the light flash alone will produce a jump : the person has learned the jump behaviour . |
| 7 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 8 | " 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After a time the engines slowed and we could hear the wheel turning . |
| 11 | After a time the aunt noticed Conradin 's visits to the shed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But after a time the book fell from his hand . |
| 14 | After a time the others go off to search for ‘ Smee ’ — but of course they do n't know who they are looking for . |
| 15 | ’ After a time the traffic stopped and the green man shone bright against the sickly pale grey of the noonday sky . |
| 16 | But after a time the right person could tie you down . |
| 17 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 18 | These changes show how financial pressures brought about the collapse of the early Roman coinage system ; so much so that it seems that for a time the Roman state had to fight the war on credit given by some of its citizens . |
| 19 | For a time the eastern empire was able to maintain itself in Italy , but thereafter the popes had to look to the new Frankish power in the north for their temporal defences . |
| 20 | For a time the two saw each other daily . |
| 21 | The inspiration of Alexander is apparent in the portraits of Pompey , the most powerful Roman of his day , and for a time the effective ruler of the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 22 | Although in the sixth century the Byzantine Emperor Justinian 's great generals Belisarius and Narses succeeded in reconquering much of the west , so that for a time the Mediterranean again became a Roman lake , in the following century Europe faced a dangerous new enemy . |
| 23 | For a time the decline in Canada 's conventional oil reserves was to be met by the development of Western Canada 's gigantic oil sands deposits . |
| 24 | Progress in the 19th century lay in improving refining techniques , in finding new uses ( especially in catalysis and electricity ) and discovering new sources , principally in the Urals — after which for a time the Russians adopted platinum coinage . |
| 25 | Cutting off the flow of refugees did not solve the financial problem , though for a time the government acted on the assumption that the refugee organisations could now look after themselves . |
| 26 | For a time the villagers must share their breezes , shops and sunshine with the leisure seekers . |
| 27 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 28 | For a time the Romans applied it to virtually the whole of Greece . |
| 29 | For a time the movement for reform even embraced demands for a Constitution . |
| 30 | For a time the joy of motherhood overcame her eating-disorder . |