Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It seemed like fate at the time — as though I were specially meant to meet him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Both taxes came into operation at the time when the land and property boom turned into a slump . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |
| 9 | 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 . |