Example sentences of "[det] be [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 2 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 3 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 4 | He was the first big money(950,000) signning by Allan Clark , personally I think Clark just signed him because everybody else was spending absurd amounts money on crap , this was about the time malcolm allison was spending 1 to 2 million quid every other week on unknown bits of shit , so clarke thought lets join in . |
| 5 | This was at the time the government introduced conscription , when the travelling medical boards had instructions to discharge unfit men , to take the place of those called up . |
| 6 | On 19 July 1991 the foster mother applied for leave to apply for judicial review of the local authority 's decision to remove the four children from her , that being at the time the only procedure which was open to her . |
| 7 | Thus , Marius of Avenches records a land division made with Gallo-Roman senators , under the year 456 , that is at the time of the fall of the emperor Avitus . |
| 8 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 9 | Er that was at the time of er er King Edward the seventh , s It was time of his death was n't it ? |
| 10 | N I have worked with her on , she is responsible for some artist to do in Belgium and I needed some information on some artist who worked , that was at the time when I was doing eh , P R campaigns for er , Sheba , the cat product , and we needed . |
| 11 | That was in the time when Dr Marks was principal and a young master named George Scott was on the staff , two of the best remembered Britishers who ever lived in Burma . |
| 12 | That was round the time when I first went to see me doctor . |
| 13 | Neither was at the time of the sale physically attached to the realty . |