Example sentences of "[prep] the country [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But he was out of the country at the time . ’ |
| 2 | The money would be spent to pay social insurance benefits to people who had been persecuted and driven out of the country at the time of the Anschluss and were now living in countries such as Israel and the United States , and a small proportion would be devoted to projects in Austria . |
| 3 | Er they get rather sulky and offended to say the least , they get er , often they recruit academics and lawyers to say that the memories of abuse are fabricated , the memories of abuse they could n't really have happened because the people concerned were out of the country at the time and were on holiday anyway and er did n't even meet the family until the kid was eleven years old after it was sup and so on and so forth . |
| 4 | Sebe , the " President-for-life " of the Ciskei homeland which was granted nominal independence by South Africa in 1981 , was absent from the country at the time . |
| 5 | Chapman insisted , too , that his players should have decent club conditions , and the Highbury dressing-rooms were rated the best in the country at a time when most clubs were content to provide only the most spartan of facilities for changing and cleaning . |
| 6 | And Rome insisted that the ritual occur in a consecrated church — which , given the relatively few churches in the country at the time and their tendency to be congregated in certain areas , was not always possible in Ireland . |
| 7 | The establishment of the welfare state and a large nationalized sector ( at the end of the 1930s/1940s period of change ) was due to the political balance in the country at the time and the need of UK industry for a rational provision of education , health and economic infrastructure at the core of the economy . |
| 8 | I I often , well , usually , if I 'm in the country at the time I bet on the National just for a , for a to sort of waste some money . |