Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the time of the Miners Strike ; just afterwards . |
| 2 | It was the time of the Baedeker raids , when German bombers struck cathedral towns , and some of the guests who stayed in York the night before had sleepless hours . |
| 3 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 4 | It was the time of progressive rock . |
| 5 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 6 | Adaptation to Roman society and culture ; doctrinal self-definition , and organizational solidification : the century and a half after Constantine 's conversion was all this ; but more than anything else , it was the time in which Christians learnt to live in the new conditions of their existence . |
| 7 | It was the time for the dissemination and transcription of stories and songs by means of travelling storytellers and poets ; many of these , like Chrétien de Troyes and certain trouvères and troubadours received royal patronage . |
| 8 | Rhetorically , it was the time of the great horticultural images of education , derived perhaps first from Rousseau and reinforced by Froebel , for whom the child was the tender plant growing in the garden , the kindergarten . |
| 9 | The vital question facing the union was precisely the vital question facing Britain at that time ; it was the time to make a choice . |
| 10 | It was the time of my own personal greatness , before any human hurt had got in the way . |
| 11 | It was the time of suffragettes and Mr Norman McCorquodale was reported as saying that a spray of water through the hose on them would be a good thing . |
| 12 | It was the time when he had to choose between , on the one hand , learning to limit the purely sensual pleasures offered him by his physical evolution , and on the other hand , accepting that failure to do so would either destroy or delay the enjoyment of the much broader and deeper pleasures which were becoming available to him by virtue of the developing emotions within him . |
| 13 | It was the time when many stars started to come out of the political closet and openly voiced their support for one candidate or another . |
| 14 | It was the time of day when the tables were mostly occupied by kids , all dressed to the nines , playing more with the Steve Davis ‘ cool ’ than the St£e Davis ‘ skill ’ . |
| 15 | It was the time of ‘ the Troubles ’ . |
| 16 | It was the time when her mother took to the couch because she could n't stand the sight and sound of the hordes of women and children with their buckets , and the arranged fights among the urchins so that one or two of their gang could get away with some lumps of coal , which would make all the difference between having a fried meal or freezing both inside and out . |
| 17 | It was the time spent with this woman that became instrumental in deterring Millie from making her escape from this prayer-ridden , ignorant set of women , from which Mother Francis must be excluded . |
| 18 | Strategically , it was the time to do it . |
| 19 | It was the time of the sixty war . |
| 20 | It was grey and , and mustard , it sounds revolting but we , we were a bit , I suppose it was the time we had a purple carpet , we had an orange wall , do you remember that living room ? |
| 21 | ‘ It was the time when so much began , the new writing , painting , the ballet coming to London . |
| 22 | It was the time of wooden pit props and er much kneeling and laying down and hacking away at the coal with picks and there was no mining machinery as we know it now . |
| 23 | And er it was the time as they were there were popularizing a a scheme From mine to your cellar , M I N E , mine to your cellar , you see ? |
| 24 | It was the time taken for this bureaucratic grind that chewed at Forester 's patience the most — each day away from Cumbria increased the chance of his missing the conclusion of the investigation . |
| 25 | But there again er it was the time we lived in and you had certain Well yards had their own way of trying to keep track of when a guy was in a toilet etcetera and sometimes you would have to hand in y your er your time ticket , to the toilet attendant , and you would give him this ticket and he would say right you are , you know , and mark down your number on a book and say to you , well you 've got seven minutes or something you know . |
| 26 | When he came to Bristol it was the time of a developing awareness among young people . |
| 27 | Well every bonfire night it was the time for most people to get rid of the fleas and the mattresses and er and bonfire night we used to come just right . |
| 28 | It was the time that the women machinists at Ford had gone on strike for equal pay , a struggle that was to continue , intermittently , for the next eighteen years . |
| 29 | It was the time of day when the soul speaks Latin |
| 30 | If the patient was already in the hospital , it was the time when haematemesis or melaena occurred . |