Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [prep] [det] time " in BNC.

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1 Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book .
2 Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power .
3 As one example , we know that it was at this time that he took the opportunity to fill the vacant see of York since the canons were present and thus he could postulate and consecrate Walter Gray .
4 There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter .
5 Their date is unsure , perhaps around the mid sixth century , and it seems likely that it was near that time that Greek sculptors did learn to hollow-cast bronze on a large scale .
6 But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time .
7 A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion .
8 And I was at that time a married man with two children .
9 We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change .
10 He went nuts — he went crackers , got the cane , and he was wielding it , and it was at that time that the rest of the boys decided to pile up the furniture in the corner and set fire to it , so half the classroom was burning .
11 The interior of Skirlaugh church was thoroughly repaired between 1813–19 and it was at this time that a screen , fine pulpit , pews and a wainscot gallery were finally removed .
12 To summarise , Wirral began the 1980s with a steady flow of opioids available from both legal and street sources and it was at this time that the majority of Wirral 's users began their habit .
13 He provided the money to make this possible and it was at this time that Paul moved into Allen Street .
14 And it was at this time , in 1910 , that Cubism entered its most ‘ difficult ’ or hermetic phase , which subsequently gave rise to so much misunderstanding .
15 Membership of the three European Communities was , and has remained , identical , and it was at this time that the Member States became known as ‘ the Six ’ .
16 And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author .
17 After National Service in the RAF , he worked for for eight years and it was during this time that he came in contact with , whilst the Belfast mill was being refurbished .
18 The occasional comment one hears that Parker plays the way he is here simply because he was by that time a seasoned performer and recording artist is not really to the point ; Parker was a naturally developmental musician .
19 Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me .
20 ‘ The demands , in a sense , were ridiculous for Television as it was in that time .
21 Having followed P C and P C as he was at that time through the door , I went immediately to the bedroom on the right hand side , the second bedroom .
22 For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him .
23 Leonard was keen to assert his own lead in that movement , for it was during this time that he was compiling his second book ( five years after the first ) The Spice-Box Of Earth , which was published in 1961 to great critical acclaim .
24 Held , dismissing both appeals , Findlay : ( 1 ) the judge had accepted the custody officer 's evidence that the notes in the pocket book were shown to Findlay , though he was at that time incommunicado ; and Code C 12.12 in its unamended form ( which governed this case ) only applied to interviews at police stations so that it did not require the notes in the present case to be shown to him : Brezeanu & Francis [ 1989 ] Crim.L.R. 650 .
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