Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] about the time " in BNC.
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1 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It was about the time you dropped the raw egg into your great-aunt 's letter box . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ When I saw him , but he must 've come on the bus it 'd stop at the turn an' 't was about the time . |