Example sentences of "who [prep] the time be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1991 , he was offered the manager 's job at Birmingham City , an English Third Division club , who at the time were so down at heel they resembled an inveterate gambler staggering from one bad bet to another . |
| 2 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 3 | On the one hand there was no group of Yugoslavs to whom the phrasing of Robertson 's order applied more completely than the Croat Ustachi , Domobranci and regular troops under German Army Group E , who at the time were approaching the Austrian border , armed and in very large numbers . |
| 4 | To allow Botham Wanderers , who at the time were without a win , to take a four-goal lead was asking for trouble . |
| 5 | There were two female attendants on board who at the time were busy preparing beverages in the centrally situated galley . |
| 6 | At the Madrid summit last summer , Sir Geoffrey Howe , who at the time was collaborating closely with Mr Lawson , tried to insist that she name a date after 1 July next year on which Britain would join . |
| 7 | In the meantime all we have is the popular version that Blake was befriended by a 32-year-old Irishman , Sean Bourke , who at the time was coming to the end of a seven-year sentence and was living in the prison hostel just inside the perimeter wall of the prison but allowed to go out to work each day on parole . |
| 8 | It was all fun , frolic , and magnificent display — apart from an attempt to assassinate the Tsar , who at the time was seated beside the Emperor in an open carriage . |
| 9 | Such a brigade did not exist , but had been dreamed up by Brigadier Dudley Clark , who at the time was in charge of an outfit dealing with deception plans . |
| 10 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 11 | Apollinaire , who at the time was fascinated by the interrelation of the arts , and was exploring the visual possibilities of poetry in his Calligrammes ( for which one of the original titles was Moi aussi je suis peintre ) , was inspired by Delaunay 's paintings Les Fenêtres to compose , late in 1912 , his poem of the same name , in which the means are to a certain extent analogous . |
| 12 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 13 | In an interview with police , Smith , who at the time was going through divorce proceedings but living in the same house as her husband , told them : ‘ It was him or me . ’ |