Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
| 2 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
| 3 | It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate . |
| 4 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 5 | It was about this time that Endill began hearing footsteps echoing around the corridors of Nightside . |
| 6 | It was about this time that the meal ended . |
| 7 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 8 | It was about this time that Scott found out that Charles Barry junior had distributed a paper to MPs pressing his own claim to the Foreign Office . |
| 9 | It was about this time that Elizabeth 's growing reputation began to attract the envy and malice of reviewers . |
| 10 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
| 11 | It was about this time that Wordsworth met Coleridge ( 1772–1834 ) , whom we are considering in this chapter as an important English philosopher rather than as a poet . |
| 12 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 13 | I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging . |
| 14 | For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him . |
| 15 | It was about this time , however , that friends began to notice a change in his physiognomy : he was much more hunched , leaning forward as he stood ; his face was paler , and the lines more accentuated . |
| 16 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
| 17 | It was about this time she began seeing more and more of Laurence Wheldon … |
| 18 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
| 19 | It was about this time that Fred McKinley was invited to apply for membership . |
| 20 | It was about this time that Wynne made her first contact with Lars Carstensen and links were forged with Carita House , who have supplied so much of our equipment and clothing over the past 25 years . |
| 21 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 22 | He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint . |
| 23 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
| 24 | It was at that time , in fact , that he met Andy Warhol . |
| 25 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 26 | It was at that time like wine to be in the presence of the Lusignan Bastard , ebullient , assured of success , glowing with pride in himself and his army . |
| 27 | He went nuts — he went crackers , got the cane , and he was wielding it , and it was at that time that the rest of the boys decided to pile up the furniture in the corner and set fire to it , so half the classroom was burning . |
| 28 | It was at that time the highest innings by anyone until A.E.J. Collins hit an unbeaten 628 in a junior house match at Clifton College in 1899 . |
| 29 | And er it was at that time that the Independent Labour Party left the I the Labour Party . |
| 30 | That 's how tight it was at that time o' day ! |