Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] this time " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
3 | She was at this time secretary of the Londonderry branch of the NILP . |
4 | She was at this time a large , middle-aged woman whose name I shall not mention . |
5 | We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change . |
6 | She was by this time . |
7 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
8 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
9 | It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate . |
10 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
11 | It was about this time that Endill began hearing footsteps echoing around the corridors of Nightside . |
12 | It was about this time that the meal ended . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | It was about this time that Scott found out that Charles Barry junior had distributed a paper to MPs pressing his own claim to the Foreign Office . |
15 | It was about this time that Elizabeth 's growing reputation began to attract the envy and malice of reviewers . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It was about this time that Wordsworth met Coleridge ( 1772–1834 ) , whom we are considering in this chapter as an important English philosopher rather than as a poet . |
18 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
19 | I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging . |
20 | For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him . |
21 | It was about this time , however , that friends began to notice a change in his physiognomy : he was much more hunched , leaning forward as he stood ; his face was paler , and the lines more accentuated . |
22 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
23 | It was about this time she began seeing more and more of Laurence Wheldon … |
24 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
25 | It was about this time that Fred McKinley was invited to apply for membership . |
26 | It was about this time that Wynne made her first contact with Lars Carstensen and links were forged with Carita House , who have supplied so much of our equipment and clothing over the past 25 years . |
27 | It was at this time that Diderot , who often strolled into the artists ' studios , paid a visit to David , and saw a picture which the artist was just finishing . |
28 | Ironically , it was at this time that Ezra Pound , who had been arrested and imprisoned for treason , was examined by four prominent psychologists and judged to be insane . |
29 | It was at this time that Asgerjorn resigned his membership of the SI , although he continued to finance it through the sale of his paintings which were increasingly in demand in the 1960s . |
30 | It was at this time that ‘ Space Oddity ’ was released , a period in David 's life that brought both triumph and tragedy . |