Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie 's then boyfriend — and later husband — Beverley Cross , became a close friend of Ken 's at the time , too . |
| 2 | Incidentally , this choice also justifies the ‘ north-western ’ bias of our cases , for north-west England is at the time of writing still one of the strongholds of the small to medium regional brewery . |
| 3 | True , what he had felt for Kee was at the time a stronger passion , and so far as charm went they could n't be compared . |
| 4 | Mrs Williams was at the time the most popular women in the world , after Mother Teresa , and it occurred to me , rather too late , that I was on to a loser here . |
| 5 | There was another fellow living at Ralph 's at the time called Kenny Bell , who said , ‘ I 'm sorry , you ca n't come in ’ . |
| 6 | At the end of teaching , the long street towards the centre of Cullbridge was for a time a babble of noise , with scuffles , cap-snatching and schoolboy indecencies hurled from green-blazered groups on one side to green-blazered groups on the other . |
| 7 | It is a contender : a colleague of Ackroyd 's on The Times announced that it was a ‘ sure contender ’ for the Booker Prize of 1987 ( which it did n't receive ) . |
| 8 | Somalia is for the time being represented by its interim government . |
| 9 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 10 | Chain , exasperated by the British failure to provide him with adequate research facilities , migrated to Rome , but was retained as a consultant by Beecham 's at a time when the firm was rapidly developing its research facilities . |
| 11 | Jean-Claude 's went back to the time when the region was awash with oceans of rye , Otto 's to the time when the Demoiselles Tatin were still alive . |