Example sentences of "[prep] this time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
2 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
3 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
4 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
5 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
6 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
7 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
8 | Leonard was keen to assert his own lead in that movement , for it was during this time that he was compiling his second book ( five years after the first ) The Spice-Box Of Earth , which was published in 1961 to great critical acclaim . |
9 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
10 | It was during this time that he studied the Saxon language and the Anglo Saxon laws . |
11 | After National Service in the RAF , he worked for for eight years and it was during this time that he came in contact with , whilst the Belfast mill was being refurbished . |
12 | Avoid all restaurant or take-away food during this time as it is difficult to know what you are eating . |
13 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
14 | And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life . |
15 | A few days after this we commenced running down our longitude , and from this time until we reached the shores of Van Diemen 's Land , several species of this family ( Procellaridae ) were daily in company with the ship . |
16 | I had not had very successful relationships with people up to this time and I said no to him . ’ |
17 | I felt embarrassed : clearly we had seen more of Flora at this time than I remembered . |
18 | We used to go on holiday at this time but I think maybe the sun will do him a world of good . |
19 | Tony Visconti : ‘ Space Oddity ’ had been recorded and released at this time although it was not selling . |
20 | Don Neely said that Crowe was asked at this time whether he was available for the World Cup if somebody else were skipper : ‘ I wo n't tell you his reaction . |
21 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
22 | It was safer to hire soldiers as well and it is at this time that we first come across the name Mercadier , a name that from now on was to be closely linked with Richard 's . |
23 | It was at this time that we read Morgan Forster 's article in the Listener about George Crabbe and we were touched and interested enough to seek out a copy of Crabbe 's poems and I well remember my surprise in discovering a mid-19th-century edition in San Diego , I think . |
24 | It was at this time that she started painting seriously . |
25 | It was at this time that he first came across some Nonconformist pastors from Shrewsbury and was deeply impressed and helped by the ‘ fervent prayers , godly conversation and holiness ’ of their lives . |
26 | It was at this time that he commissioned both Cooper and Sadler in the field , in recognition of their services , an action which was later thought to have been highly irregular . |
27 | As one example , we know that it was at this time that he took the opportunity to fill the vacant see of York since the canons were present and thus he could postulate and consecrate Walter Gray . |
28 | I had a dream at this time that I was caught by the Nazis . |
29 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
30 | Nevertheless , the Minister did not think at this time that it was necessary to end the corporate status of Tanzania 's radio service . |