Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at that time in Jesus Christ , Superstar . |
| 2 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 3 | I was at that time really completely persuaded of the relevance and interest of this approach and of this subject matter . |
| 4 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 5 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 6 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
| 7 | I was at one time er the ph printer Not the photographer but the printer for erm a free hand out paper called the Islander . |
| 8 | Oh , I only pay dutiful visits now , ’ Rose went on , ‘ but I was at one time very frequently here . |
| 9 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 10 | He was constantly demanding rewrites , even on the set , so you never knew where you were at any time . |
| 11 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
| 12 | I ca n't begin to say how supportive she was at that time . ’ |
| 13 | She was at this time secretary of the Londonderry branch of the NILP . |
| 14 | She was at this time a large , middle-aged woman whose name I shall not mention . |
| 15 | ‘ We were at one time , ’ said Doctor Lanyon . |
| 16 | We were At that time of day the minima the minimum wage was fourteen shillings a day . |
| 17 | Only if they are at that time identified and agreed upon , will they be specific goods . |
| 18 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 19 | Sir Daniel bade his brother Roger , then living at Coniston Hall , make a report on the mines as they were at that time . |
| 20 | Least they were at that time . |
| 21 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 22 | They were at this time boycotting the Security Council in protest at the UN refusal to replace Taiwan by Communist China ; hence there was no Soviet veto on sending UN forces to support South Korea . |
| 23 | Though all were to achieve success , Oliver as a poet , Bruce as picture journalist and Jeffrey as sports journalist and author of The Spectator 's column , ‘ Low Life ’ , they were at this time a little like characters out of a Chekhov play , searching and bewildered . |
| 24 | ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth . |
| 25 | Whoever could it be at this time of night ? |
| 26 | seems like an hour and a half when it 's at that time |
| 27 | At the end of a long , draggy , boring Friday afternoon , it 's at last time to clear up . |
| 28 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 29 | It is at this time that the characteristic tapping sound which gives the beetle its name can be heard . |
| 30 | It is at this time that the trident became a regular part of her iconography , specifically after the great victory of the Earl of Howe at the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794 ; shortly thereafter , from the early nineteenth century , she is also regularly shown as wearing a helmet . |