Example sentences of "was [prep] the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is so time-consuming that you need to look at the end result with a very critical eye and decide whether it was worth the time it took to produce . |
| 2 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
| 3 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 4 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 5 | It was about the time you dropped the raw egg into your great-aunt 's letter box . ’ |
| 6 | It was like the time she had thrown a cheque for one hundred and twenty pounds into the fire one Christmas , thinking the envelope was empty , though luckily it had been a present from her godfather , and he had good-naturedly written her another . |
| 7 | We , I used to move around a lot on those days as you could do really speaking because I was n't old enough to be under the Essential Works Order you see , and er I was by the time I went into the army it was 1946 so er the war was over . |