Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
2 | By 1372 England had suffered a naval defeat at La Rochelle and lost most of the gains which it had made by the time of the treaty of Brétigny ; in the following year much of Brittany was lost ; in 1375 another spectacular naval defeat was suffered ; and in 1376 and 1377 the south and east coasts of England were alerted under threats of invasion or raids . |
3 | Cos it had moved by the time we got there . |
4 | Headhunting in Britain was imposed — seeming alien at first — in the search for remedies for Britain 's national corporate ills ; in America it had burgeoned at a time of growth and prosperity . |
5 | The murderer thought about it , still finding it almost as amusing as it had seemed at the time ; the murderer 's sense of humour was childlike , adolescent at the best , but secretive . |
6 | It had happened at a time when all I had to offer him was absolute misery for both of us . |