Example sentences of "about this time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
3 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
4 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |