Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 3 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 4 | Well , I was crazy … sure I was for a time . |
| 5 | Apparently even if I was within the time limit of twenty-eight weeks ' pregnancy — which of course I 'm not — I could n't possibly stand an eight-hour flight ; I 've got a touch of toxaemia — ’ |
| 6 | We , I used to move around a lot on those days as you could do really speaking because I was n't old enough to be under the Essential Works Order you see , and er I was by the time I went into the army it was 1946 so er the war was over . |
| 7 | Er well I was in the time office in the first place , the men used to er cl check in , they used to bring the checks you see ? brass checks , numbered . |
| 8 | But she just looks at me pityingly , like I was behind the times and needed to catch up with the latest ideas . ’ |
| 9 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 10 | Between 1821 and 1842 he took out five patents , one of them for a ‘ suspension railway ’ which was tried out unsuccessfully in Cheshunt , and two relating to a system of constructing roofs and bridge decks in corrugated wrought or cast iron , which was for a time quite extensively used . |
| 11 | Thus , in September , 1976 , a fire aboard HMS Glasgow , which was at the time under-going repairs in the Swan Hunter shipyard , resulted in the death of eight workers . |
| 12 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 13 | For three quarters of the race she was within the time for for another British mark , but as she explained afterwards : ‘ Two hard 50-metres just before meant I was lacking at the end . ’ |
| 14 | In 1840 Thomas Wilkins , who was at the time running a successful baking business , took over the mill in the centre of Bourton then known as Lower Valley Water Mills . |
| 15 | Mr Nearn , who was at the time sole concessionaire for the Seven , supplied the car used in the series . |
| 16 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 17 | , Peter ( 1850–1918 ) , locomotive engineer , was born 13 August 1850 in Polmont , Stirlingshire , the son of George Drummond , who was at the time a permanent-way inspector on that section of the North British Railway , and his wife Christina Thomson . |
| 18 | The death threats had been provoked by Motoshima 's suggestion in December 1988 that Emperor Hirohito ( who was at the time dying of cancer ) bore some responsibility , " as do all of us who lived in that period " , for Japan 's role in the Pacific War of 1941-45 . |
| 19 | It was reported on April 11 , 1990 , that tapes of an interview held following the 1975 trial , between Gerard Conlon , one of the Four , and Peter ( now Sir Peter ) Imbert , now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , who was at the time of the trial a bomb squad superintendent , were becoming a source of conflict between the police and the defence lawyers at the judicial inquiry . |
| 20 | The partnership agreement sought to restrain outgoing partners over a period of five years from acting as a solicitor , notary , trade mark or patent agent or in any similar capacity in the Colony of Hong Kong whether as principal , clerk or assistant for any person , firm or company who was at the time of his ceasing to be a partner or had during the period of three years prior thereto been a client of the partnership … |
| 21 | And finally there is a statement from a woman called Sarah who was at the time of these events , church and her statement can be read because there is nothing in dispute in it . |
| 22 | who was at the time ? |
| 23 | There was at the time a French popular song , wistful and haunting , and I used to repeat it in my mind like a rosary. : |
| 24 | First , there is now , and indeed there was at the time of the committal hearing , no equity in the property . |
| 25 | You remember all the talk there was at the time , Arthur ? " |
| 26 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 27 | The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of |
| 28 | Well there was at the time obviously . |
| 29 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
| 30 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |