Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 3 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 4 | The ideological basis of Kremlin policy seemed confirmed at this time by Stalin , who declared in a speech in February 1946 that the Second World War had vindicated the Soviet system of government . |
| 5 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |
| 6 | Most of the other students had foregathered by this time and were awaiting their final briefing from their tutor . |
| 7 | A splinter group of the NPFL , led by Prince Yormie Johnson , had emerged by this time as a separate and important force . |
| 8 | For the first time , he was beginning to sell records in the United States , but the relationship between DeFries and Bowie had disintegrated by this time . ’ |
| 9 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 10 | He draws a clear line between individual patronage which had declined by this time , and the subscription method which , while it left authors obliged especially to those who solicited for them , reduced individual dependence : |
| 11 | The tearing pain returned and the doctor prescribed large doses of morphia which he had kept for this time . |
| 12 | His attitude to life had changed during this time . |