Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [det] time [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | It is at this time that the characteristic tapping sound which gives the beetle its name can be heard . |
3 | It is at this time that the trident became a regular part of her iconography , specifically after the great victory of the Earl of Howe at the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794 ; shortly thereafter , from the early nineteenth century , she is also regularly shown as wearing a helmet . |
4 | It is at this time that some do-gooders may make all kinds of suggestions . |
5 | Perhaps we could go back still further , to the event of her own birth , and even into an intra-uterine existence , for it is at this time that the ovaries and all the eggs are formed in the female . |
6 | It was safer to hire soldiers as well and it is at this time that we first come across the name Mercadier , a name that from now on was to be closely linked with Richard 's . |
7 | It is during this time that torture most commonly occurs . |
8 | Since rainfall controls plant growth , and plants are the base of the food pyramid , deserts typically have only a short period when food is abundant ; it is during this time that the creatures of the desert must complete their breeding cycle . |
9 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
10 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
11 | It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate . |
12 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
13 | It was about this time that Endill began hearing footsteps echoing around the corridors of Nightside . |
14 | It was about this time that the meal ended . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | It was about this time that Scott found out that Charles Barry junior had distributed a paper to MPs pressing his own claim to the Foreign Office . |
17 | It was about this time that Elizabeth 's growing reputation began to attract the envy and malice of reviewers . |
18 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
19 | It was about this time that Wordsworth met Coleridge ( 1772–1834 ) , whom we are considering in this chapter as an important English philosopher rather than as a poet . |
20 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
21 | For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him . |
22 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
23 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
24 | It was about this time that Fred McKinley was invited to apply for membership . |
25 | It was about this time that Wynne made her first contact with Lars Carstensen and links were forged with Carita House , who have supplied so much of our equipment and clothing over the past 25 years . |
26 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | And er it was at that time that the Independent Labour Party left the I the Labour Party . |
29 | of the day I do n't which government it was at that time cos it was in the fifties okayed it and |
30 | It was at this time that Diderot , who often strolled into the artists ' studios , paid a visit to David , and saw a picture which the artist was just finishing . |