Example sentences of "this time [ex0] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time there was a Land Rover and an unmarked escort [ car ] at the scene … |
| 2 | It was n't a very nice day again ; this time there was a good old Scotch mist and it was damp and cold . |
| 3 | By this time there was a great interest in how he had overcome his problem when so many other treatments had failed . |
| 4 | This time there was a prolonged muttering that sounded like a complaint and the rags shook as though in anger . |
| 5 | At this time there was a kosher chip shop in the district , but being further than Mitchell 's — and it being rather late at night — Mum was loath to ask her to go too far . |
| 6 | But this time there was a difference . |
| 7 | Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country . |
| 8 | This time there was a lady called Miss Skiffins , clearly a regular visitor , who made the tea , and sat next to Wemmick on the sofa . |
| 9 | Jehana shouted again , but this time there was a note of alarm in her voice . |
| 10 | Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of planes again , only this time there was a different engine note added to the first , low and heavy , making a rhythmic thrumming inside her head and growing stronger every second . |
| 11 | And this time there was a woman sitting by the fire . |
| 12 | Once more her eyes flew to meet his , but this time there was a shy pleasure in their brown depths until again a shadow darkened them . |
| 13 | But this time there was a difference . |
| 14 | This time there was a deep awareness of each other , an awareness of the sacredness of this kind of union . |
| 15 | This time there was an answer , but it was the one he had dreaded . |
| 16 | But this time there was an added element — the tower had a window , from which a girl , with one of the steeple-like head-dresses of the fifteenth century , seemed to be peering down . |
| 17 | This time there was an answer . |