Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went through a period of seeing myself dead , seeing myself in a coffin and the people at my funeral . |
| 2 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 3 | In the early part of 1991 , before all this occurred , I went through a period of time when my find rate dropped drastically and on many occasions I went out and came back home with nothing at all . |
| 4 | I know , I went through a period of a very much milder popularity in the United States in the seventies , nothing like what Neville has enjoyed or has been squashed by , which maybe is lucky for me , but the idea was that erm Rolling Stone , when I was doing it , became very heavily innovative and there was like countless magazines , you know weekly newspapers in different cities , sections of dailies , everything , that started looking like Rolling Stone there for a while . |
| 5 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 6 | In fact , there were four distinct varieties , which he regarded as separate races , of subspecies , which had over a period of time become cut off from each other and ceased to interbreed . |
| 7 | Practically the whole of Ata'i 's work , on the other hand , is concerned with scholars who lived in a period of relatively rapid elaboration of the hierarchical structure ; and well before Ata'i 's own time the development was nearly complete . |
| 8 | We lived in a period of superstition and dread . |
| 9 | The population of Britain was to rise from between seven and eight million in 1760 to 15 million in 1820 — in other words , it doubled in a period of 60 years . |
| 10 | Minority Constituent Assembly groups not consulted , along with PL and Social Conservative Party ( PSC ) delegates in the Congress , strongly criticized the pact , claiming that it amounted to a period of " presidential dictatorship " . |
| 11 | It led to a period of sharp retrenchment and redundancies , a situation that at the time was very foreign to ICi which had been accustomed to unrestricted expansion in practically everything it undertook . |
| 12 | This success lies behind his translation to Canterbury in the following year ; thereafter , until his death in 1381 , he presided over a period of taxation the scale of which exceeded even that of the early years of the reign . |
| 13 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 14 | Following demobilisation , he opted for a period of higher education at Lamar University in Beaumont . |
| 15 | It belonged to a period of architecture that was both ugly and ornate , and it was fairly covered with scrolls and plaques and turrets and totally unnecessary little balconies . |
| 16 | This incident finally convinced Charles that he should abandon his efforts to work with parliament , and he embarked on a period of personal rule , which lasted until 1640 . |
| 17 | One of them was his habitual slowness , especially in handling and totting up cash ; for , before he took up duties in the foreign exchange department of Lloyds in the semi-basement room at the branch at 20 King William Street ( no wonder that the eyes and back , at the end of the day , turned ‘ upward ’ from the desk ) , he worked for a period behind the counter . |
| 18 | This act certainly constituted a legal precondition to the proclamation of Finland 's neutrality , but it coincided with a period in the mid and late 1950s when for various reasons the notion of neutrality in Europe suddenly gained a positive image among Soviet leaders . |
| 19 | Moreover , as he made clear , he found the measured pace and rhythm of the work especially congenial , coinciding as it did with a period of remarkable creative gestation . |