Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely that some of the chief Druids fled from Gaul at the time of Caesar 's invasion and took refuge in Britain where they initiated and developed a strong anti-Roman feeling among the most susceptible British chieftains . |
| 2 | Bobby Lavender came of age at the time the police had just crushed the last Black Panthers political group and new non-political gangs were beginning . |
| 3 | It seemed like fate at the time — as though I were specially meant to meet him . |
| 4 | BRACKEN HOUSE , THE former home of the Financial Times , came under threat at the time ministers were considering the introduction of the Thirty Year Rule on listing ( see page 149 ) , and probably played a major part in securing the greater protection for post-war buildings of excellence that SAVE had sought for so long . |
| 5 | He acquiesced in the attempt of Lady Jane Grey [ q.v. ] to seize the throne from Mary , and came under suspicion at the time of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt [ q.v. ] , but within a few weeks was back at his duties . |
| 6 | Both taxes came into operation at the time when the land and property boom turned into a slump . |
| 7 | It does indeed seem that the taboo on wives working was still operating among the generation that came to maturity at the time of the Great War . |
| 8 | Those two plants came on stream at a time when we needed all the capacity they could provide . |
| 9 | A friend of Bailey stationed at Hullavington at the time , Corporal Steven Paterson , is accused of helping cover up the crime . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that Jesus rode into Jerusalem at the time of the Feast of Dedication , which came just before the Passover . |
| 11 | Mairi was furious when after a while Luch started to take long to return with the bucket , but it did her no good ; the wee lass often vanished for hours at a time , in spite of the scoldings she got when she returned late . |
| 12 | No similar conditions existed in Britain at the time of this study . |
| 13 | In a typically British way , we have failed to take the credit that is due to us for that achievement , which had its origins in the Kangaroo group of Members of the European Parliament founded by the late Basil de Ferranti specifically to break down the trade barriers that existed in Europe at a time when none of the other major Community partners wanted to know anything about it . |
| 14 | One Windscale worker who lived in Seascale at the time said he recorded radioactive contamination on his son 's shoes which was almost six times the level used to signify a hazard inside his laboratory . |
| 15 | The name is believed to be derived from a personal name Sighel or Signup , and the second part from the thorn bushes which grew in abundance at the time , and dates possibly from the 7th century . |
| 16 | I pointed out how dangerous it would be , and — well , how damaging to me in my position if my wife went to Ireland at a time like this . ’ |
| 17 | Herod , who reigned over Palestine at the time , could not even claim to be a Jew by birth . |
| 18 | When God appeared to Moses at the time of the burning bush , Moses was told , |
| 19 | The point I 'm making however , is that a , a fairer way to judge this book , might be to say , not well let , let's reject everything in it that 's Lamarckian , cos it does n't fit with our modern prejudices , a fairer way , might be to read it the way we read Darwin 's works , where there is also considerable Lamarckenis Lamarckism , and say well , this is er , this is an understandable error , given the poor state of knowledge that people had about genetics at the time , and then try and make sense of it . |
| 20 | He was a tough and uncompromising player with a hard man image but he was also a supremely loyal competitor who stayed with Leeds at a time when a big money transfer might have been more lucrative . |
| 21 | He embarked soon after on his long verse-tragedy Osorio , a story ‘ romantic & wild & somewhat terrible ’ , which he set in Spain at the time of the Inquisition , but which was to draw , at least to a small extent , on his Quantock and Exmoor wanderings of the next few months . |