Example sentences of "during those [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome .
2 During those meetings it was emphasised by all participants that a great deal of work would need to be done in the translation of medical textbooks , and that this would take considerable time .
3 During those years we met for ‘ reunions ’ in New York and London and it was always wonderful to see her .
4 During those years it has built over two thousand seven hundred ships , including four hundred war ships for the Royal Navy .
5 Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’
6 Some time during those years I remember thinking it offensive that all the people ‘ up front ’ in black were male .
7 Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran .
8 During those months you 've frequently explained how we would both benefit from informing the literary world of the trick Tristram and I played on it .
9 During those months I worked hard on my cave and my house and my fence .
10 During those months I became anxious , short-tempered and critical .
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