Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline . |
| 2 | And the cruise she was on at that time — well , that was to convalesce after a very serious operation , although , ’ he added wryly , ‘ she would probably kill me for mentioning it . |
| 3 | Most peers are disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons ( see below , pp.76–80 ) and it was thus at one time the case that a promising political career could be cut short by the involuntary inheritance of a title . |
| 4 | It was generally at this time that the user began to think about ‘ coming off ’ and the , usually long , association with the various medical and social agencies began . |
| 5 | It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations . |
| 6 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 7 | The reason was that it was not at that time ascertained that those materials were definitely to be used . |
| 8 | It was not until some time later that the drawings were found to have been stolen . |
| 9 | There was always plenty of activity here , and so much so , that it was not until some time had elapsed , that a rumbling from above brought the GC to his attention . |
| 10 | It was not until some time around the 18th century that it was firmly back where it is now . |
| 11 | Well it was on at that time I was dropping pancakes and crumpets and the manager come up one morning and said that there was running late . |
| 12 | It was also at this time that Elizabeth was first invited to a ‘ very simple luncheon ’ at Braemar Mansions . |
| 13 | Suspicions were easily aroused , for it was also at this time that Britain announced its desire to reduce the number of its troops stationed in West Germany under the WEU agreement , as part of its switch to a nuclear-based defence . |
| 14 | It was also at this time that the Hwicce ( and possibly other border peoples such as the Magonsaete and Wreocensaete ) were brought more completely under Mercian control . |
| 15 | It was also at this time that there occurred the " inversion " of Voigt 's Randtroge or marginal troughs in northern , extra-Alpine Europe . |
| 16 | And it was also at this time , erm partly under the influence of war , partly no doubt under the influence of Freud , he began to become very much more conscious of the ugly , destructive patterns of unconscious motivation , which underlie the decorous surface of civilized life . |
| 17 | But I did have the chance of an exhibition , and it was just at that time , and I was working hard , and she — she , well , I suppose she was a distraction . ’ |
| 18 | Unfortunately it was just at this time that Tyndale 's unfavourable comments on the royal divorce came to the King 's attention , and Vaughan was sharply told to end the discussions . |
| 19 | It was just before closing time when a girl dropped an envelope in my lap . |
| 20 | It was probably at that time that Zborowski took Modigliani to visit Anders Osterlind , a Swedish painter whom Modi had met in Paris years earlier when they visited the Cézanne retrospective together and almost cried with excitement . |
| 21 | It was probably at some time during that same period when the dawning need to rely on a ‘ god ‘ first disturbed the developing human being , that he started to enjoy pleasures which were not the result of simply satisfying the desires associated with his physical evolution . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was precisely at this time that the Chinese were having to obtain supplies as tribute or by way of trade from the southernmost provinces of the empire or from Java and Sumatra . |
| 25 | At Paddy End ( it was still at that time known as Paddies End ) , Barratt considered it sufficient to set pitches to gangs of men in the existing old workings . |
| 26 | It was roughly at this time that the Clean-up TV Campaign was launched . |
| 27 | I replied , describing the state it was in at that time , and what I hoped to do with it . |
| 28 | Er , he was indeed for some time the er secretary of the er er divisional Labour party . |
| 29 | He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’ |