Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adj] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was confident by this time that I was safe , despite retaining my poor showing at school , but I was in a new trade — Metal Rigger — and was , by result , as good as most . |
| 2 | The only other Hurricane of which I was aware at this time was flown by Hamish Hamilton , which was ahead and to my left . |
| 3 | I tell you what I nearly wa , I nearly did end up like he did , I was frightened at one time ! |
| 4 | ( I was glad at this time to remember that a woman in our own suburb had said to her once , ‘ I think you are the most attractive girl in the village ! ’ ) |
| 5 | And er I was unmarried at that time and erm I , for a number of , well till nineteen forty was the end of nineteen forty I think , I joined up and went into the , the R A O C as it was then , it became the the side that I was in of course . |
| 6 | She was tired by this time , and unsure of her judgement : of stresses , of odds , even of personalities . |
| 7 | It was possible at this time to cross the harbour by stepping from one boat to another , so closely were they moored . |
| 8 | L.G.M. Rees , the pilot of the Sunderland reported : ‘ My aircraft was launched at last light the evening before the sortie since it was dangerous at that time to leave an aircraft on moorings in daylight where it could be easy prey to enemy aircraft . |
| 9 | I thought it was kingly for some time . |
| 10 | It 's a terraced house and er , it 's double storey , two floors up and er , it was well-used at that time because the reason was one er , there was n't much accommodation available and secondly it is the custom amongst our people that who 's ever er is in need we have the person , like the two of us came from India , my brother and myself , so we di could n't get a job . |
| 11 | This polychrome type of design seems to have been invented at Knossos , where it was fashionable for some time before it was adopted generally in the east of Crete . |
| 12 | It was fashionable at one time to see this process crudely in terms of mere military subjugation . |
| 13 | He was right at that time because he was , shall we say , " in season " , an exceptional pilot . |
| 14 | He was married by that time and erm living down at but I do n't think it , it would be fairly near there . |
| 15 | Although C. has no recollection of the fact , Ward J. found that he was present at some time when Miss T. was expressing her wish not to have a blood transfusion . |
| 16 | He was silent for some time . |
| 17 | He was silent for some time . |
| 18 | The annual conference of Sinn Féin , the political wing of the Irish republican movement , was held in Dublin on Feb. 3-4 , 1990 , during which Gerry Adams , the party president , said that he was ready at any time to discuss the conditions within which peace and justice could be created . |