Example sentences of "[verb] during [pron] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd rejoined the sports club she used to belong to before she 'd allowed her membership to lapse during her time with Arnie . |
| 2 | We sat on a park bench in Clifton , having revisited the streets where Moggach lived during her time in Bristol . |
| 3 | Mr Sisulu 's generosity and warmth did not waver during his time in the maximum security prison of Robben Island , where other inmates deferred to him as a charismatic senior statesman of what has been called ‘ the government-in-exile ’ . |
| 4 | Former Guatemalan President Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo , who had proposed the creation of Parlacén in 1986 , had been accused by critics inside Guatemala of seeking the presidency of the new body in order to claim immunity from prosecution for crimes he had allegedly committed during his time as President . |
| 5 | It is often said of the Prime Minister that he retains all the instincts and skills which were politically honed during his time in the Whips ' Office . |
| 6 | You must have grown during your time with the Fussies . ’ |
| 7 | Owen had seen it done during his time in Alexandria , where hysterical prostitutes were quickly restored to life and reason by an experienced old Austrian police officer of the Labban Red Light quarter . |
| 8 | It contains a mass of radioactive byproducts spawned during its time in the reactor , some of them extremely hazardous . |
| 9 | A Job Club is a three week course for unemployed people where they learn techniques of job hunting , curriculum vitae preparation , and interview techniques , and are supplied with free stamps and free telephone calls during their time in the Job Club . |
| 10 | The TA 's members are all civilians during the day , busy at their own careers , and the training and experience volunteers get during their time in uniform provide a different perspective on life . |
| 11 | Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people . |
| 12 | Her second child was born during her time at Somerville while she was studying for an M. Phil in Social Anthropology , and she describes ‘ the time when Mrs Indira Gandhi was awarded the Hon. |
| 13 | I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag . |
| 14 | Theodora rehearsed the facts about Amy 's past life which had emerged during her time at Betterhouse . |
| 15 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
| 16 | The following are my reflections on what I saw during my time in the Philippines of the efforts to build a Philippine health movement . |
| 17 | Even David Owen was later to admit that they should have been scrapped during his time at the Foreign Office in 1 977–9 . |
| 18 | One of the many things that Mrs Thatcher has learned during her time in politics is how to milk election campaigns . |
| 19 | On the day on which he had lost her he had sat for hours on the bed in the attic where she had lived during her time with him , and where they had shared their afternoon of love , and now , on the evening of the second day , he sat there again . |
| 20 | At 29 , Zoltan Illes had a background in both scientific research and green activism obtained during his time at Yale University . |
| 21 | An official enquiry is needed to examine why the skills acquired by some children in primary schools are lost during their time in a secondary school . |