Example sentences of "[pers pn] was about [det] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all .
2 It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack .
3 It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate .
4 There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter .
5 It was about this time that Endill began hearing footsteps echoing around the corridors of Nightside .
6 It was about this time that the meal ended .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 It was about this time that Elizabeth 's growing reputation began to attract the envy and malice of reviewers .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day .
13 For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him .
14 It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget .
15 It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him .
16 It was about this time that Fred McKinley was invited to apply for membership .
17 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 .
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