Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thalberg ( 1812–71 ) was considered in his time Liszt 's only true rival . |
| 2 | With music by DJ Noel Watson and costumes by Andre Walker , the piece was inspired by her time spent living in Harlem last year and by the era of Josephine Baker , Lena Horne and Cab Calloway . |
| 3 | Her second child was born during her time at Somerville while she was studying for an M. Phil in Social Anthropology , and she describes ‘ the time when Mrs Indira Gandhi was awarded the Hon. |
| 4 | Alexander , Duke of Ross , was born before his time on the thirtieth April 1514 ! ’ |
| 5 | For years we had no telephone , and the house was lit in our time by acetylene gas which we made each evening in the pigsty . |
| 6 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 7 | We can account for what he was doing with his time , but this is not the same thing as explaining how or why the tone of voice — that vigour , that distinctively Lewisian freshness and vitality — was so long in coming . |
| 8 | He was beginning to see that his concept of Art with a capital A was European , based on a classical tradition that was never going to expand to meet the challenge of the new generations of painters because it was defined by its time . |