Example sentences of "during [adj] time [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 2 | During that time he was ordered by gang members to shave off his beard to change his appearance and was again threatened that his family would be harmed if he did not do as he was told . |
| 3 | During this time they were also shown a reel of commercials for different brands , including one for Tetley round bags . |
| 4 | During this time she was involved in various local organisations . |
| 5 | During this time she was introduced to John Stuart Mill [ q.v. ] , the Utilitarian philosopher , with whom she began a long-term unconventional platonic relationship . |
| 6 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 7 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 8 | During this time it was not possible to determine oesophageal bicarbonate outputs by the pH/pCO 2 method as the pH was below 6.1 . |
| 9 | During this time he was inspired by a book called London Labour and London Poor by Henry Mayhew . |
| 10 | During this time he was ordained deacon and priest . |
| 11 | During this time he was desperately pressed with debts and with the payment of his common service of 1,450 florins to the Roman curia , which he effected by February 1321 . |
| 12 | During such time he was wont to arise at 5.30 every morning in order to be ‘ in tune with the rhythms of the day ’ . |