Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] during the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I was on his staff , as I was during the election , you can have a lot of power — influence — because you can say , ‘ I think you should do this Prime Minister , I think you should do that . |
| 2 | ‘ Honestly , I 'm as fit now as I was during the World Cup and my weight is down to what it was two years ago . |
| 3 | Indeed , Kinnock and Thatcher were more visible in our pre-campaign week , when both were on highly publicized foreign tours , than they were during the campaign itself . |
| 4 | Prompted by a return to international competition , drug tests on two players from each Currie Cup side were introduced this season , just as they were during the World Cup . |
| 5 | The other buses were either spread out in their running time or cut down to form the evening frequency which was less than what it was during the peak time and so I , you know , I 'd , I 'd left it at then , when I went in the forces then , he carried on . |
| 6 | In any case , my point is that it was during the course of this interview , when I raised the question of the difficulty of recruiting suitable staff in these times , that Mr Farraday , after a moment 's reflection , made his request of me ; that I do my best to draw up a staff plan — ‘ some sort of servants ' rota ’ as he put it — by which this house might be run on the present staff of four — that is to say , Mrs Clements , the two young girls , and myself . |
| 7 | It was during the course of his acrimonious exchanges with the Constituent Assembly on New Year 's Day 1946 that de Gaulle evidently made up his mind to resign from the presidency . |
| 8 | No it was during the conversation he er he said that I hear that you went to flat and I said yes and he said er well you just missed me , I 'd been there a couple of days before . |
| 9 | It was during the day ? |
| 10 | It was during the composition of " East Coker " at Emperor 's Gate that the idea of a quartet of poems occurred to him , a sequence which would be loosely based upon the scheme of the four seasons and the four elements . |
| 11 | It was during the generation after Waterloo that the balance of English economic and social life changed from being predominantly agricultural to being predominantly industrial ; and with this change … came the growth of urbanization , the development of the mine and factory as the unit of production , and the transformation of the " average " Englishman into a townsman rather than a countryman . |
| 12 | It was during the Easter holidays . |
| 13 | It was during the Easter holidays and the streets were full of holiday-makers — I would be seeing a lot of them in the future . |
| 14 | It was during the night that she would conjure up this picture of herself ; in the daytime she was practical . |
| 15 | But it was during the night you see , the the nineteen fifty three one was started wayward nine or ten o'clock . |
| 16 | It was during the sketch in which Ken played a hairdresser . |
| 17 | It was during the Depression , round about 1930 , I should think . |
| 18 | Well it was during the height of the er blitz ; we went in convoy from Liverpool , way north up amongst the icebergs which was exciting , and er then we came down to St Lawrence to Montreal , and then went down to er New York , and then eventually to er , we were dispersed around the countryside , and , and er we were fortunate enough to be sent to Cincinnati . |
| 19 | It was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I that the Burlington Arms was built in Church Street , Chiswick , quite close to St. Nicholas Church , and the building still exists , although much altered internally , and in more recent years used for residential purposes only . |
| 20 | It was during the reign of Dieter that the city of Marienburg ceded from the Empire in return for a huge donation to the Imperial coffers . |
| 21 | It was during the summer months of 1968 that my father first began taking me to Walton junction , Liverpool to see what must have been the very last of the steam trains thunder past at 7 o'clock . |
| 22 | It was during the summer of 1941 that I met Valeria Cantoni , a girl whose parents owned land and a fine farm house at Ghiaie , near Fontanellato . |
| 23 | It was during the period of 1943–1945 that his political awakening took place . |
| 24 | It is probable that it was during the period which is termed the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ that the first primitive acts of homage or deference to a ‘ god ’ occurred , and if this were so it could be an indication that the need for a ‘ god ’ is fundamental to the civilising process . |
| 25 | It was during the period when Jean-Claude was working on the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ that I went through the scores he wrote in la Sologne throughout his childhood and into his twenties , and others he composed in Paris before Montaine 's death . |
| 26 | This seems acceptable but doubts about its legitimacy can arise when , for example , the issue seems less a legal one than a political one , as it was during the Spycatcher affair . |
| 27 | It was during the meal that everything changed . |
| 28 | Again , I can not remember what we had to eat , though we had tried to obtain a suitable cheese ; but it was during the meal that Eliot uttered one of the most Eliotic of his remarks . |
| 29 | It was during the evening , as they were watching television , that the phone rang . |
| 30 | It was during the hammer tests that the hidden improvements over the old ER range really became apparent . |