Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 2 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 3 | It was about this time she began seeing more and more of Laurence Wheldon … |
| 4 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 5 | But one of the complaints that I was very bitter about was at that time I cycled to my work and they had paving stones in the bakery with the slits in them for to keep bikes . |