Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a command that would result in the slaying of actress of Sharon Tate ( who was pregnant with film director Roman Polanski 's child at the time of her fatal stabbing ) , coffee heiress Abigail Folger and her lover Wojiciech Frykowski , delivery boy Steven Earl Parent and Hollywood hair stylist to the stars , Jay Sebring . |
| 2 | The game at Rangers ' ground could begin to dominate Shearer 's thinking at a time when the only other striker available to Roxburgh , Hearts ' John Robertson , is carrying an injury from Saturday 's win over Falkirk . |
| 3 | According to a witness accompanying Constantine 's army at the time , the vision was of the sun god — the deity worshipped by certain cults under the name of Sol Invictus , the ‘ Invincible Sun ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , ma'am , ’ the hotel-owner told me , ‘ I was one of Mr Rochester 's servants at the time , and I can tell you it was his mad wife who started the fire in the governess 's room . |
| 5 | The incident precipitated three days of violence and looting that tarnished Miami 's reputation at a time when the city was preening itself for one of America 's premier sporting events , the Super Bowl . |
| 6 | Liverpool , who are being sued as Saunders ' employers at the time of the incident , have also received a letter from Elliott 's solicitors and are understood to have passed it on to their insurers . |
| 7 | Civitas Dei dismayed many of Curtis ' admirers at the time of its publication , but such ideas seemed less ridiculous under the stress of war , when the usual urge was experienced to justify the ways of man to God . |
| 8 | Erm , but generally , ye I mean cos Eileen and I go to a we nearly always go somewhere like Carriages or you know , somewhere Italian which is , you know , it might , it all depends on what Jim 's eating at the time . |
| 9 | Among the other girls tested for the part of Amy were 23-year-old Judy Geeson , who had already played a number of cock-teasing roles , and Joie Gould , an English secretary who was Peckinpah 's girlfriend at the time . |
| 10 | Of Malcolm McLaren 's collaborators at the time of the Sex Pistols , Jamie Reid gets a mention for persuading him of the importance of situationism , and Vivienne Westwood for producing a t-shirt slogan proclaiming how boring Derek Jarman 's Jubilee was . |
| 11 | This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes . |
| 12 | He was replaced by Gerhard Hanekom , hitherto Agriculture , Water and Rural Development Minister ; former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Anton von Wietersheim took over Hanekom 's portfolios at a time of national emergency as a result of the drought [ see p. 38855 ] . |
| 13 | I notice that Lautro 's rules at the time did not require Lautro to give their members , such as Norwich Union , the opportunity to make representations before serving an intervention notice . |
| 14 | He added that the MBR 's task at the time of the coup had been to establish the basis " for a profound transformation … in the juridical-political and socio-economic areas " . |
| 15 | Next morning , Morton was at Rivington 's studio at the time appointed . |
| 16 | Debbie Kaye , Gedge 's girlfriend at the time , worked hard on the band 's behalf and became a manager-type figure . |
| 17 | ‘ It is said that Watson replied , ‘ Is that you Mr Bell ? ’ but since there was only one telephone in the whole of God 's creation at the time , Bell ‘ s reply to HIM is not hard to guess at . |
| 18 | For more than 30 years Brooklands was the home of hundreds of races , the scene of many record attempts , and the testing ground for manufacturers who were restricted to the 20mph speed limit on Britain 's roads at the time . |
| 19 | Who was Neville Chamberlain 's secretary at the time of the Munich Agreement ? |
| 20 | Sighvat was in Olaf 's service at the time , and his Vestrfararvísur ( Western Travel Verses ) name Earl Hakon , son of Earl Eric of Lade , as acting with Cnut , and speak repeatedly of money offered to Olaf 's men , while the Tøgdrápa of Thorarin Praise-Tongue , who apparently sailed with Cnut 's fleet , indicates that he went first to Denmark to assemble his ships in the Limfjord in Jutland , and then proceeded north along the Norwegian coast to Trondheim . |
| 21 | Gunthardt had been a Wimbledon quarter-finalist that year in singles and had won the doubles title with Balazs Taroczy of Hungary so Bates ' victory at the time was a little short of sensational . |
| 22 | Charles Webb , the author of the novel , who was not much more than Benjamin 's age at the time of writing , had fashioned a different ending . |
| 23 | There was a lot of interest in Harold Burns ' activities at the time and many of the older people remember him and his Flea . |
| 24 | Davidson , who was probably the closest of Baldwin 's confidants at the time and who also had the advantage of being present at Aix , was equally muddled in his explanations . |
| 25 | As Gandalf points out , all Sauron and Saruman and the orcs have done between them is ‘ bring Pippin and Merry with marvellous speed , and in the nick of time , to Fangorn , where otherwise they would never have come at all ! ’ — and so , one might say , though it is beyond Gandalf 's knowledge at the time , to rouse the Ents , overthrow Saruman , save Rohan , and free Théoden to make his decisive intervention at Minas Tirith . |
| 26 | When she was thirteen , Gerry , who was her sister Rosie 's boyfriend at the time , began to take a strong interest in her . |
| 27 | A brief tour of inspection of London 's streets at the time that the Hooligans were publicly christened will help us to see something of what these quiet streets were made of . |
| 28 | Michael Lee had grown up in London 's dockland at a time when prejudice towards the Chinese seemed to be at a height — and especially half-caste Chinese children , and there were few enough of those . |
| 29 | ( 19 November 1778 ) In this letter Leopold gave exact details of their financial position finishing with the news that Mozart had ‘ plunged ’ him into debt to the extent of 863 gulden ( Leopold 's salary at the time was little over 500 gulden ) . |
| 30 | Although the three earlier poems had been highly praised and widely read — their reception , Hayward told Frank Morley , had boosted Eliot 's reputation at a time when it was in danger of being obscured by younger poets — he was unable to finish the sequence . |