Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at that time really completely persuaded of the relevance and interest of this approach and of this subject matter . |
| 2 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 3 | Oh , I only pay dutiful visits now , ’ Rose went on , ‘ but I was at one time very frequently here . |
| 4 | She was by that time too valuable a property to be junked , so they settled for a short suspension and a revised entry in the book . |
| 5 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 6 | But , like its relatives in Devon , the Sussex has remained largely confined to its own region in spite of its potential , though it was at one time more widely used in several English counties as a draught animal . |
| 7 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 8 | It was at this time too that there appeared in Europe the system of notation in which the exact time-value of a note is indicated by a lozenge on a pole . |
| 9 | It was at this time too that W. L. Bragg was beginning to unravel the complex structures of the crystalline silicates . |
| 10 | It was from this time onward that Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture was begun . |
| 11 | It was by this time not quite clear exactly which lands in the Company 's possession related to the original bequest . |
| 12 | Yes , it is difficult to believe that before Sly Stallone was blasting out showers of bullets , he was at one time more likely to be seen wielding a pair of scissors and blowing hot and cold with a hairdryer . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing both appeals , Findlay : ( 1 ) the judge had accepted the custody officer 's evidence that the notes in the pocket book were shown to Findlay , though he was at that time incommunicado ; and Code C 12.12 in its unamended form ( which governed this case ) only applied to interviews at police stations so that it did not require the notes in the present case to be shown to him : Brezeanu & Francis [ 1989 ] Crim.L.R. 650 . |
| 14 | He was at this time already suffering from an ailment from which he and his friends would suffer until the end of his life — piles . |