Example sentences of "was [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 2 | Leonard was keen to assert his own lead in that movement , for it was during this time that he was compiling his second book ( five years after the first ) The Spice-Box Of Earth , which was published in 1961 to great critical acclaim . |
| 3 | It was during this time that as a senior staff officer of V Corps he had been involved with some of the orders to repatriate the Russian and Yugoslav prisoners . |
| 4 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
| 5 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 6 | It was during this time , when he was again near to death , than he began writing his best known book The Saint 's Everlasting Rest . |
| 7 | It was during this time that Diana found the Queen to be an ally . |
| 8 | It was during this time that Foch showed his unshakeable courage . |
| 9 | It was during this time that the Sword Masters of Hoeth gathered to study the art of swordsmanship and protect the tower . |
| 10 | It was during this time that two kinds of tenure began to dominate in Britain , owner-occupation and local authority tenancy . |
| 11 | It was during this time that two passengers attempted suicide , one with a syringe and tranquillizers , another by slashing his wrists and jumping into the sea ; both survived . |
| 12 | It was during this time that James was able to reacquaint himself with another old school chum , Malcolm Nurse . |
| 13 | It was during this time that he studied the Saxon language and the Anglo Saxon laws . |
| 14 | After National Service in the RAF , he worked for for eight years and it was during this time that he came in contact with , whilst the Belfast mill was being refurbished . |
| 15 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
| 16 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
| 17 | It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate . |
| 18 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 19 | It was about this time that Endill began hearing footsteps echoing around the corridors of Nightside . |
| 20 | It was about this time that the meal ended . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was about this time that Elizabeth 's growing reputation began to attract the envy and malice of reviewers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |