Example sentences of "[prep] this time that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 2 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 3 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
| 4 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 5 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
| 6 | It was during this time that he studied the Saxon language and the Anglo Saxon laws . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | It was at this time that we read Morgan Forster 's article in the Listener about George Crabbe and we were touched and interested enough to seek out a copy of Crabbe 's poems and I well remember my surprise in discovering a mid-19th-century edition in San Diego , I think . |
| 11 | It was at this time that she started painting seriously . |
| 12 | It was at this time that he commissioned both Cooper and Sadler in the field , in recognition of their services , an action which was later thought to have been highly irregular . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 15 | It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 . |
| 16 | It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 . |
| 17 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |