Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah but so did I and I did nothing but write during that time but I 've never known and everything I 've said about that is true , has turned out to be true . |
| 2 | I did my best , but I suppose it was during that time that I began to drink too much and that finished off my promotion chances . |
| 3 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
| 4 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 5 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 6 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
| 7 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 8 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
| 9 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 10 | Leonard was keen to assert his own lead in that movement , for it was during this time that he was compiling his second book ( five years after the first ) The Spice-Box Of Earth , which was published in 1961 to great critical acclaim . |
| 11 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 12 | It was during this time that he studied the Saxon language and the Anglo Saxon laws . |
| 13 | After National Service in the RAF , he worked for for eight years and it was during this time that he came in contact with , whilst the Belfast mill was being refurbished . |
| 14 | Avoid all restaurant or take-away food during this time as it is difficult to know what you are eating . |
| 15 | If yer really want ter know I 've been courtin' a widow for some time an' we 're thinkin' of settlin' down tergether , ’ he replied . |
| 16 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 17 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 18 | ‘ They had known each other for some time before they married , though , had n't they ? ’ ventured Greg . |
| 19 | This polychrome type of design seems to have been invented at Knossos , where it was fashionable for some time before it was adopted generally in the east of Crete . |
| 20 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 21 | ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline . |
| 22 | He became very depressed for some time before he could reassess himself , start to use his considerable abilities and begin courting his wife again . |
| 23 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 24 | Indeed , it should be emphasized that Picasso had been dissatisfied with the limitations imposed on pictorial volumes by a scientific or linear system of perspective for some time before he became aware of the fact that Cézanne 's painting suggested a new concept of form and space . |
| 25 | He had been sitting by the fire for some time before he decided to open the letter . |
| 26 | She stumbled on in this manner for some time before I talked her into accepting a chair and a cuppa . |
| 27 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 28 | ‘ Not for some time but we are not worried , miss , it 's not unusual for the gentry , if you will excuse me saying so , to keep folks waiting for payment . ’ |
| 29 | Most of these had been producing un-hinted PostScript fonts for some time but they now all had the tools to create the all-important encrypted Type 1 fonts and had licenses to produce PostScript typesetters . |
| 30 | We have been trying to breed Red Pandas for some time but they are very difficult . |