Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was around that time that I spotted an advertisement for CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) in the personal column of the Sunday Times . |
| 2 | So it appears that completion was around that time although the date is not er , is not certain . |
| 3 | It was around that time that I began to foster the notion that information was being withheld , that somebody was not telling me everything . |
| 4 | It was around this time that Nick Kent started coming down to rehearsals at Riverside . |
| 5 | It was around this time that he met George Underwood who was to become a lifelong friend . |
| 6 | It was around this time that Seth began a new romance , with Susan Schilling , a preacher 's daughter he met at the dentist 's . |
| 7 | It was around this time that ‘ queer-bashing ’ began in Bath , as in the rest of Britain . |
| 8 | It was around this time that Gregory began to miss concerts spasmodically because he wanted to stay in Leeds for personal reasons . |
| 9 | It was around this time that I first discovered the darker side of ornithology — the effect of man on the environment . |
| 10 | Yet it was around this time that he settled for being an actor . |
| 11 | It was around this time that he went to collect his Mercedes from a car showroom and found himself being gathered in for the Lord . |
| 12 | As noted earlier , it was around this time that the appointment of a new teacher led to the consideration of a comprehensive study skills package from another school . |
| 13 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |
| 14 | It was around this time that the twinkle in the planner 's eye was transformed into a 20-storey tower-block . |