Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the ‘ scholar patriots ’ perhaps one can say that , instead , they helped to awaken the national consciousness ; and in the evening of his life Phan Boi Chau , in a moving analogy in which Vietnam was likened to an orphan child which by this time should have learned to walk and France to a tutor who felt that the child was easier to control when he was unable to run , talked of a people whose traditional values had been destroyed and who were thus a generation of uprooted people on their own soil . |
| 2 | It contained an area of nineteenth-century by-law housing , the old commercial centre of the town which by this time was in a semi-derelict condition , and the slum-cleared and redeveloped area of Dockwray Square with medium-rise council flats . |
| 3 | With his by now legendary disregard for anything current which was n't The Smiths or his personal protégé ( the superb Easterhouse fell in his favour at this time ) , Morrissey performed ceremonial destruction with Sade , Style Council , Ultravox , Carmel , Genesis , Marilyn and , ironically enough , Blue Rondo who by this time were probably bragging about how The Smiths once supported them ; poetic justice indeed . |
| 4 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 5 | ( Boy would never , of course , have used the word us at this time . |