Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was difficult to make out the essential nature of the girl : it seemed to change with the time of day , the season . |
| 2 | It seemed to work at the time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Cos it had moved by the time we got there . |
| 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 . |