Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [prep] the time [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | We , I used to move around a lot on those days as you could do really speaking because I was n't old enough to be under the Essential Works Order you see , and er I was by the time I went into the army it was 1946 so er the war was over . |
2 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
3 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
4 | It was about the time you dropped the raw egg into your great-aunt 's letter box . ’ |
5 | It is so time-consuming that you need to look at the end result with a very critical eye and decide whether it was worth the time it took to produce . |
6 | It was like the time she had thrown a cheque for one hundred and twenty pounds into the fire one Christmas , thinking the envelope was empty , though luckily it had been a present from her godfather , and he had good-naturedly written her another . |