Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv prt] the time " in BNC.
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1 | According to Visser ( 1966 : 669 ) , it is around the time of the passage from Old to Middle English that one witnesses the beginning of this " shrinkage " of the non-past , which loses more and more ground to the constructions with will and shall . |
2 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
3 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
4 | It was around the time of ‘ Strange Town ’ and he was starting to think that punk rock had had it and he was getting very emotional . |
5 | It was around the time of Eric Verrico 's disappearance that the three Bernard brothers — Bruce , Oliver and Jeffrey — came into Minton 's life . |