Example sentences of "it was [prep] [adj] 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 | Now it was worth five times what he paid for it , a fact on which he often dwelt with satisfaction . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint . |
| 24 | But , like its relatives in Devon , the Sussex has remained largely confined to its own region in spite of its potential , though it was at one time more widely used in several English counties as a draught animal . |
| 25 | It was at one time in the library of Darcy Lever Hall , Bolton and in the 1930s it was rescued from a junk furniture shop in Kent . |
| 26 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 27 | Certainly , it was at one time essential for certain musical movements to be of a precise length , for otherwise the dancers of gavottes and minuets would find themselves in sorry confusion . |
| 28 | Indeed it was at one time believed that the advent of the railways had signalled the end of the movement of live meat . |
| 29 | It was at one time said that statutes were drafted in such a way as to be intelligible only to lawyers . |
| 30 | I 'm sure it was at one time . |