Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am happy to acknowledge the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council , and the questions that it had at the time of its submission need to be dealt with . |
| 2 | Canon Atkinson , who traced the history of the Horngarth service , concluded that it originated about the time that St Hilda acquired land at Whitby — or Streonshalh as it then was — to found a monastery in AD 657 , 500 years before the appearance of the legend . |
| 3 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |
| 4 | Still no acknowledgement was made and it grew near the time when Gigia would be setting out on her journey . |
| 5 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |
| 6 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 7 | David , you said that last week , and then when it came to the time |
| 8 | It must be remembered that what is described is , almost without exception , the church as it existed at the time of writing . |
| 9 | His word conveyed power and achieved results as it had from the time of creation itself . |
| 10 | Their final work , a book on the geology of Scotland , though never completed in their lifetimes , was published in 1930 as it stood at the time of their deaths . |
| 11 | ‘ Self-government ’ was thus conceived not as the inevitable prelude to letting India go , as it appeared at the time and has appeared since to eyes less clouded than Montagu 's by belief in the possibility of voluntary servitude , but as the natural means of keeping it . |
| 12 | Laurie Mains , the All Black coach , was plainly displeased at Schuler 's decision , for it came about the time that Mains was hoping rugby league scouts might not be chasing his All Blacks in the next few months . |