Example sentences of "about [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about this time she began seeing more and more of Laurence Wheldon … |
| 2 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 3 | Last year at about this time it produced the admirable Victorian Newcastle painter Ralph Hedley ; this winter it is showing in ‘ A Romance with the North East ’ Rober and Isa ( Thompson ) Jobling , who lived and worked there until the 1920s producing powerful and poetic images of its countryside coast and people . |
| 4 | About this time I wrote to her : |
| 5 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 6 | At about this time I was able to discard the dread of the " chop " from Halton and a balm to my ego was a gain in my outdoor activities , particularly in cross-country and track , I felt very comfortable at the workshops , I also adored the evening sessions at school when we were lectured by such great names of the day as Churchill , Trenchard , Beaverbrook , General Smuts , a host of politicians , and near our own held , such fine names in aviation as Handley Page and others ; splendid names in their day . |
| 7 | About this time I noticed that those crews who consistently got aiming point pictures on the bomb plots issued by HQ Bomber Command after each raid were never selected for PFF . |
| 8 | About this time he started to wonder whether he ought to be a monk . |
| 9 | At about this time he acquired the churches of Brightwalton and Melton Mowbray , gifts from the monks of Battle and Lewes . |
| 10 | At about this time he returned to Courthill to assist his father , and so he was able to use all the resources of the smithy to make the kind of machine that was in his mind . |
| 11 | Oh yeah no problem and as Tony was saying music sessions they tend if the session is good to forget about closing time you know official closing time . |
| 12 | I have told you about ten times I have not got a pen . |