Example sentences of "[vb past] during the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drops of liquid solidified during the fall and were instantly cooled by the water , which also preserved the shot from damage by impact on a hard surface . |
| 2 | I feel I must reply to some of the points Mr , Findlay made during the course of the conversation ( I was told that these were not just his views , ie. he had discussed the matter with you ) . |
| 3 | Defeated election candidate Paul Rayner has honoured a pledge he made during the campaign to members of Middlesbrough 's Muslim community by writing to the new Home Secretary with details of long delays experienced by would-be immigrants . |
| 4 | UNION leaders called for High Street banks to be taxed on the £500 million profit they made during the sterling crisis . |
| 5 | Mr Bergg wrote to Mr Fallon asking him to qualify the remarks he made during the debate . |
| 6 | The entries in the diary should be supported , wherever possible , by evidence such as copies of staffing schedules , menu sheets , stock records , reports , etc. produced during the working day . |
| 7 | What these filmmakers miss is the level of emotional intensity that both the realist filmmakers , whom the critics approved of , and those of a more melodramatic or fantastic disposition , whom they did n't , seem able to conjure , for almost the first time , in the films they produced during the war . |
| 8 | Only one major problem arose during the course of this extensive but meticulously planned renovation exercise . |
| 9 | In terms of Israeli-US relations , the issue was so potentially divisive that it had been largely ignored ; the issue never formally arose during the whole of US President Reagan 's eight years in office . |
| 10 | The earliest mammals ( Eutheria ) , the insectivores , arose during the time that reptiles dominated the earth . |
| 11 | The trading conditions which we experienced during the year with no recovery in prospect required a radical look at the costs and overheads structure of the UK activities . |
| 12 | The person concerned is , generally speaking , the mother , but , given the role reversal which I experienced during the school holidays , it seems reasonable to point to my father 's behaviour as a possible contributory factor to my becoming anorexic . |
| 13 | Erm well we had a a big raffle erm we wrote away to all the local shops and restaurants ask them to donate prizes and we raised a lot of money through that and also my mum erm cooked Indian snacks which we sold during the interval erm which everyone loved and so it worked quite well . |
| 14 | It has been the deliberate policy of the Supplement to give these the prominence they lacked during the period when the OED was being edited . |
| 15 | This compares with depreciation on the Dumfries building where production ceased during the year . |
| 16 | After his election , Dr Kumar spoke of the racial attacks he endured during the campaign . |
| 17 | Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one . |
| 18 | Tt and er one of the passages that I read during the service , is this one , psalm a hundred . |
| 19 | Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's a man I met during the course of my work . ’ |
| 21 | We met during the course of the Windsor affair in nineteen forty . ’ |
| 22 | The people we met during the day became our table companions in the evening . |
| 23 | At first , she felt bereft , because all her friends were working and the people she met during the day were a generation older . |
| 24 | There also , in the early morning prayer time , Jesus heard the word that would sustain the weary he met during the day . |
| 25 | ‘ She had her friends , but they met during the day . |
| 26 | Though dogged by ill health in later years he was still able to work in his particularly single-minded way , largely because of the devotion of his wife Mitzi whom he met during the war , while serving with the Royal Engineers . |
| 27 | Someone , then , who you met during the surveillance of Latowa . |
| 28 | What they built during the war . |
| 29 | One patrol car crashed during the pursuit , injuring two officers , but the police say it 's incredible no one was killed . |
| 30 | September 8 : NA T-28 Trojan , crashed during the airshow at St Rambert d'Albon , killing well-known French warbird Pierre Dague . |