Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] this time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exceptional Photoplays labelled it as ‘ an uncompromising film ’ and was quite sure it gave proof that ‘ motion picture art has by this time attained its majority ’ . |
| 2 | The work done at this time did , however , serve to educate the permanent officials in the new approach to economic policy . |
| 3 | A British report on the American occupation written at this time commented scathingly that the Koreans employed by the military government were ‘ almost hopelessly incompetent ’ . |
| 4 | Halling at this time had considerable hop fields from the area of the Plough to North and Upper Halling , the last of these fields to survive being in Upper Halling in the early 20th century . |
| 5 | The nastiest little attack we endured at this time came from , of all papers , the Lancet . |
| 6 | But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light . |
| 7 | We received a call from the hospital , which had by this time received the results of the X-rays . |
| 8 | I had by this time met the latter . |
| 9 | The wheezing noise of the bellows had by this time excited the interest of some sentries on a large freighter moored nearby , but Maclean shouted out that they should mind their own business . |
| 10 | The Supreme Court ruled on Dec. 13 that he should be returned to prison but Alcalde had by this time left the country . |
| 11 | Canada , with which Newfoundland had by this time merged , duly requested and consented ; Australia , New Zealand and South Africa merely ‘ assented ’ . |
| 12 | A majority of the EC , in which the Georgian Menshevik I.G. Tsereteli had emerged as a leading figure , had by this time adopted ‘ revolutionary defencism ’ , accepting that until peace had been secured they must uphold the front . |
| 13 | The papacy had by this time lost most of its former immense temporal power . |
| 14 | He had by this time divorced his first wife . |
| 15 | AFHQ itself , however , had by this time issued a number of order and signals in respect of both groups which were potentially in conflict . |
| 16 | Many of the institutions and practices established at this time remained intact until the twentieth century . |
| 17 | Many other films released at this time showed how widespread were the skills developed by Hepworth . |