Example sentences of "[prep] this time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about this time she began seeing more and more of Laurence Wheldon … |
| 2 | Last year at about this time it produced the admirable Victorian Newcastle painter Ralph Hedley ; this winter it is showing in ‘ A Romance with the North East ’ Rober and Isa ( Thompson ) Jobling , who lived and worked there until the 1920s producing powerful and poetic images of its countryside coast and people . |
| 3 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 4 | About this time I noticed that those crews who consistently got aiming point pictures on the bomb plots issued by HQ Bomber Command after each raid were never selected for PFF . |
| 5 | About this time I wrote to her : |
| 6 | At about this time he returned to Courthill to assist his father , and so he was able to use all the resources of the smithy to make the kind of machine that was in his mind . |
| 7 | At about this time he acquired the churches of Brightwalton and Melton Mowbray , gifts from the monks of Battle and Lewes . |
| 8 | About this time he started to wonder whether he ought to be a monk . |
| 9 | So erm the surrogate was artificially inseminated herself erm er , it took us seven months to achieve a pregnancy , and during this time we got to know each other very well |
| 10 | During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays . |
| 11 | The Bank has been fortunate in that during this time we have been associated with a Grand Slam in 1984 and a share of the Five Nations Championship in 1986 . |
| 12 | During this time they had also become accustomed to a pattern of corporeal proximity , nothing like horseplay of course , or holding hands , or significant touching , but just an ordinary sort of being close together like two friendly animals in a stall . |
| 13 | During this time they absorbed the Chinese imperial system and Confucian philosophy , but after winning their freedom on the collapse of the Tang dynasty they flourished as an independent nation . |
| 14 | During this time they provided an average of five daily meals often baking bread two or three times a day in addition to tending the garden and cows . |
| 15 | During this time they learn to live with a family and to behave well . |
| 16 | During this time she helped hundreds of overweight men and women to lose weight for the sake of their health . |
| 17 | During this time she travelled the French countryside , and the result was an exhibition in 1989 which sold out instantly . |
| 18 | Millie was two hours under Sister Mary , and during this time she learned that the nun did not always bother to use her hand , she also used a ruler that seemed as flexible as rubber , for when it hit knuckles it bounced back from them . |
| 19 | During this time she gnawed her way through two sets of thick leather straps and ruined most of her leg feathers into the bargain by continually ripping them off . |
| 20 | During this time she drew the conclusion that Beardsley takes his penalties at alternative sides ( if he scores ) . |
| 21 | During this time she wanted to exploit all the constitutional possibilities and consolidate a broad-based support around the civil rights demands . |
| 22 | During this time I began to realise that perhaps I was n't going to go home . |
| 23 | During this time I had my first experience with a knitting machine . |
| 24 | And during this time I belonged to Toc H. |
| 25 | During this time I noticed a definite regression in his mental state . |
| 26 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
| 27 | And during this time I learned something very important-if you want to be happy , you must be free . |
| 28 | During this time I lost 8 ¾ pounds and came away feeling a new woman ! |
| 29 | During this time I revisited Braemar Mansions . |
| 30 | During this time I browsed the book-stores , and resisted the temptation to steal two or three interesting volumes , among them De Gaulle 's foreign policy monograph . |