Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] [adj] 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 was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
| 3 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
| 4 | It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate . |
| 5 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 6 | It was about this time that Endill began hearing footsteps echoing around the corridors of Nightside . |
| 7 | It was about this time that the meal ended . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was about this time that Elizabeth 's growing reputation began to attract the envy and malice of reviewers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 14 | For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him . |
| 15 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
| 16 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
| 17 | It was about this time that Fred McKinley was invited to apply for membership . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And er it was at that time that the Independent Labour Party left the I the Labour Party . |
| 22 | of the day I do n't which government it was at that time cos it was in the fifties okayed it and |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Ironically , it was at this time that Ezra Pound , who had been arrested and imprisoned for treason , was examined by four prominent psychologists and judged to be insane . |
| 25 | It was at this time that Asgerjorn resigned his membership of the SI , although he continued to finance it through the sale of his paintings which were increasingly in demand in the 1960s . |
| 26 | It was at this time that he first came across some Nonconformist pastors from Shrewsbury and was deeply impressed and helped by the ‘ fervent prayers , godly conversation and holiness ’ of their lives . |
| 27 | It was at this time that the Club first negotiated to use the cricket field for ‘ tuition ’ and it became an overflow car park in 1966 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was at this time that Chapman made another of his ‘ discoveries ’ . |
| 30 | It was at this time that many growers began to group together to form the earliest co-operatives in Champagne . |