Example sentences of "at the time [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of her death she was working on a novel . |
| 2 | Cardinal Paolo Evaristo Arns , Archbishop of Sao Paolo , was in Belgium at the time of her death and would have liked to have said her Requiem Mass . |
| 3 | At the time of her arrest , Dai Qing was working on a series of studies entitled Modern Chinese Intellectuals : From Liang Qichao to Fang Lizhi , in order , as she put it , to fill in some of the ‘ memory holes ’ of the history of the Chinese Communist Party . |
| 4 | MY LORD JOHN by Georgette Heyer Arrow , £4.99 AT THE time of her death , Georgette Heyer was working on a large-scale historical sequence based on the character of John , Duke of Bedford , third son of Henry IV , and known to us primarily as the goody-goody prince of Shakespeare 's Henry IV . |
| 5 | This lady of 42 came along with the diagnosis of uterine fibroid which was leading to severe haemorrhaging at the time of her period . |
| 6 | At the time of her conversion , she was sometimes ecstatic with love ; on one occasion she returned home , and was so on fire with love which God had manifested to her that all she could utter was : ‘ O Love , can it be that thou hast called me with so much love , and revealed to me , at one view , what no tongue can describe ? ’ — Von Hugel . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , as we have seen , such an approach suggests a more complete , less messy and more fundamental change at the time of her study than seems to be justified by the continuing history of the 1970s . |
| 8 | Bessie was at a strict Jewish school at the time of her début and was expelled publicly for appearing in the theatre . |
| 9 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 10 | ‘ Having established that the larger skeleton was that of a female , I set about making an estimate of the subject 's age at the time of her death . |
| 11 | Dawa confessed , at the time of her arrest , to giving the flag to the monk and in late 1990 she reportedly received a three-year term of ‘ re-education through labour ’ . |
| 12 | Katie , from Hawley , Hants , had been staying with a pal at the time of her murder after a row with her parents two weeks earlier . |
| 13 | It was a command that would result in the slaying of actress of Sharon Tate ( who was pregnant with film director Roman Polanski 's child at the time of her fatal stabbing ) , coffee heiress Abigail Folger and her lover Wojiciech Frykowski , delivery boy Steven Earl Parent and Hollywood hair stylist to the stars , Jay Sebring . |
| 14 | The following week James Butlin reported that she had been ‘ exceedingly foul in her linen and verminous at the time of her admission ’ . |
| 15 | Miss Miller , who was 65 at the time of her death but had a mental age of two , died on November 7 last year from head injuries . |
| 16 | At the time of her appointment , Fohrbeck , who is a distinguished sociologist and studied under the renowned philosopher Jürgen Habermas , made no mention of her firmly held and openly practised faith . |
| 17 | This was my first sight of Rosemary at the time of her engagement to Basil . |
| 18 | As a bright and promising student of Armchair Theatre Sydney Newman felt Verity Lambert was right for the Producer 's post , in spite of her distinct lack of years , being only twenty-seven at the time of her appointment . |
| 19 | Rubies , along with emeralds , oriental sapphires and pearls were used to enrich the brooches and gold crowns owned by Edward I 's wife , Eleanor of Castile , at the time of her death in 1290 . |
| 20 | Almost forgotten at the time of her death in 1975 , Madame Yevonde is now the deserving subject of a major retrospective organised by the National Portrait Gallery in conjunction with the Royal Photographic Society . |
| 21 | … For the purpose of these proceedings it is to be assumed that the plaintiff 's injuries as subsisting at the time of her birth were caused by the act or omission of the defendant in the driving of his car . |
| 22 | In De Martell , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff when the plaintiff 's mother was in labour at the time of her delivery and his birth . |
| 23 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |
| 24 | To allow matching for proximity of mother 's residence to a nuclear establishment at the time of her child 's birth a further series of controls was selected from locally held hospital delivery registers . |
| 25 | That book portrayed her as an insecure child , who had overcome her unhappiness at the time of her mother 's elopement by zealously nursing her younger brother . |
| 26 | Sattareh 's father may have been autocratic , infuriatingly stingy and over 60 at the time of her birth , but he was also unusually enlightened . |
| 27 | At the time of her second marriage she was in love with Henry Pierce , an attorney 's clerk and associate of her first husband . |
| 28 | At the time of her appointment , Elizabeth acknowledged that she was coming to Lothian also at a time of great change with developments in the areas of delegated budgets for schools , curriculum guidelines for five to 14 year olds , nursery education and special education . |
| 29 | At the time of her launching Searcher was still far from completed and much work remained to be carried out , including the installation of the Paxman Valenta engines , delivery of which had been delayed . |
| 30 | At the time of her break-up with Hugh , not wanting to worry her mother , she had kept much of her own unhappiness hidden . |