Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was supposed to be playing rhythm at the time , but I decided to play a solo on the spur of the moment . |
| 2 | They said he had been taken to a nearby farmhouse where he was being given shelter for the time being , and that his name was Eric . |
| 3 | His ambition , which was to drive him so hard in later life , resulted in his being made choirmaster by the time he was fourteen — his first taste of authority . |
| 4 | The lads were having lunch at the time and when ‘ Jacki ’ leaned over to shake hands with Peter Grant , his tie fell into a bowl of soup . |
| 5 | Father Anstruther , the former vicar who lived rather too near , was to do duty for the time of Mark 's absence — not an entirely satisfactory arrangement but the best that could be made . |
| 6 | On the one hand , the Church of England had managed to insult and harass its lesbian and gay members ( it is not known how many left in disgust ) , and had helped to justify to the public the upsurge in homophobic discrimination and violence which was taking place at the time . |
| 7 | There seem in fact , however , to be two exceptions to this general rule , namely Molla Yegan , who almost certainly resigned the office , and Abdulkerim , who must either have resigned or been removed from it if the facts given in the he was appointed Mufti in the time of Mehmed II and died in the time of Bayezid II — are correct . |
| 8 | Born in 1818 , son of a stonemason , Burnard was carving stone by the time he was twelve , making his own crude ‘ chisels ’ from nails ground down in sand from Dozmary Pool . |