Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [prep] the 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 | 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 — ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 1 State exactly where you were at the time ( if in a motor vehicle please give number ) . |
| 8 | Except Tim 's a bit older than you were at the time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The issues raised by these comments are as relevant today as they were at the time . |
| 12 | In that year , Haringey 's Labour councillors learned more about heterosexism than they would ever have believed possible , and they have become far more articulate in their defence of lesbian and gay rights than they were at the time of their election . |
| 13 | The sharpest criticisms of this approach have been made — as they were at the time — from extreme left-wing but non-Stalinist positions . |
| 14 | Erm er they formed this committee and erm it was in Switzerland er where they were at the time . |
| 15 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 16 | The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue . |
| 17 | Lyndon Bolton , the managing director , yesterday described prospects as more encouraging than they were at the time of the interim report in August . |
| 18 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was about the time you dropped the raw egg into your great-aunt 's letter box . ’ |
| 22 | It was about the time of the William & Mary declaration that a group , predominately Quaker , and motivated by one Dr. Edward Wright " Physician at the Sign of the Ship neare the Monument in London " , became interested in mining and smelting . |
| 23 | It is so time-consuming that you need to look at the end result with a very critical eye and decide whether it was worth the time it took to produce . |
| 24 | It was everyone 's dream to mix their album in their front room and that 's the kind of studio it was at the time . |
| 25 | It was at the time when The Jesus And Mary Chain were just beginning to bumble along . |
| 26 | It was at the time of the doodle-bugs , the flying bombs , and air raid warnings were frequent . |
| 27 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 28 | Faith coming before and bringing about healing is as real to many Christians today as it was at the time of the Gospel . |
| 29 | ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . ) |
| 30 | did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all |