Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] this time " in BNC.

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1 As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation .
2 Canada , with which Newfoundland had by this time merged , duly requested and consented ; Australia , New Zealand and South Africa merely ‘ assented ’ .
3 Many people are struggling to get their hunters fit at this time of the year .
4 All Tiller Girls loathe the description ‘ chorus girls ’ : its offensiveness dates from this time .
5 The Waste Land hardly suggests that the inhabitants of the twentieth-century city are conscious actors in fertility rites , but since these , long forgotten , underlie our behaviour , since the ‘ sexual instinct ’ plays a role in ‘ the religion and mythology of primitive peoples ( indeed in all religion ) ’ , and since Christianity and primitive ritual are linked , the poem expresses despair at the change and decay not only of city churches which Eliot visited at this time , but of all belief .
6 We pray for all those killed each day in wars , disasters and accidents throughout the world ; for prisoners of conscience ; for Farzad Bazoft and all who die of torture , starvation and maltreatment ; and for Margaret Tyrrell , John Rahilly , Ernest Cowley , George Smith , Eileen O'Connor , Peter Crawley and Helen Timms whose anniversaries fall at this time of the year .
7 We pray for all those killed each day in wars , disasters and accidents throughout the world ; for prisoners of conscience and all who suffer from torture , starvation or maltreatment ; and for George Swadling , Dermot Horgan , John Murphy , Robert Dunseath and Mary Bester whose anniversaries fall at this time of the year .
8 We pray for all those killed each day in wars , disasters and accidents throughout the world ; for prisoners of conscience ; and all who suffer torture , starvation or maltreatment ; and for Martin John Hughes and Etheldreda Castle , whose anniversaries fall at this time of the year .
9 We pray for all those killed each day in wars , disasters and accidents throughout the world ; for prisoners of conscience ; and all who suffer torture , starvation or maltreatment ; and for Charles and Catherine Ellul , Bernard Murphy , Thomas Connolly , Kathleen Donohue , Betty Butler , Michael Sweeny , James Flood , Helen Anonuevo , and all whose anniversaries fall at this time of the year .
10 We pray for all those killed each day in wars , disasters and accidents throughout the world ; for prisoners of conscience ; and all who suffer torture , starvation or maltreatment ; and for Mary Wyse and Alfred Osborne , and all whose anniversaries fall at this time of the year .
11 We pray for all those killed each day in wars , disasters and accidents throughout the world ; for prisoners of conscience ; and all who suffer torture , starvation or maltreatment ; and for Harold Pollard , Jack Shaw , Rose O'Neill , Ellen Steen , Rosaleen Cook , and all whose anniversaries fall at this time of the year .
12 We pray for all those killed each day in wars , disasters and accidents throughout the world ; for prisoners of conscience ; and all who suffer torture , starvation or maltreatment ; and for all whose anniversaries fall at this time of the year .
13 We pray for all those killed each day in wars , disasters and accidents throughout the world ; for prisoners of conscience ; and all who suffer torture , starvation or maltreatment ; and for Sally Steepe , Mary Eames , Amelia Reeves , Mary Tulley , Ellen Beddard , William Thomas Russell , Fergus O'Connor , Hannah Hartnett , and all whose anniversaries fall at this time of the year .
14 His journal kept at this time shows the influence of Tersteegen , a German mystic .
15 Now wh while you were working , w w was your father working at this time ?
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