Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 2 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
| 3 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 4 | I just hope she 's in this time . ’ |
| 5 | She was at this time secretary of the Londonderry branch of the NILP . |
| 6 | She was at this time a large , middle-aged woman whose name I shall not mention . |
| 7 | We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change . |
| 8 | She was by this time . |
| 9 | They were at this time boycotting the Security Council in protest at the UN refusal to replace Taiwan by Communist China ; hence there was no Soviet veto on sending UN forces to support South Korea . |
| 10 | Though all were to achieve success , Oliver as a poet , Bruce as picture journalist and Jeffrey as sports journalist and author of The Spectator 's column , ‘ Low Life ’ , they were at this time a little like characters out of a Chekhov play , searching and bewildered . |
| 11 | They were by this time descending the stairs , and Mrs Alderley looked about . |
| 12 | Because of their involvement with the W family , some of them were by this time quite familiar with the Scottish Office ‘ Effective Intervention ’ document . |
| 13 | ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth . |
| 14 | Whoever could it be at this time of night ? |
| 15 | It 's for this time . |
| 16 | Ooh it 's off this time |
| 17 | It is at this time that the characteristic tapping sound which gives the beetle its name can be heard . |
| 18 | It is at this time that the trident became a regular part of her iconography , specifically after the great victory of the Earl of Howe at the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794 ; shortly thereafter , from the early nineteenth century , she is also regularly shown as wearing a helmet . |
| 19 | It is at this time that some do-gooders may make all kinds of suggestions . |
| 20 | Perhaps we could go back still further , to the event of her own birth , and even into an intra-uterine existence , for it is at this time that the ovaries and all the eggs are formed in the female . |
| 21 | It was safer to hire soldiers as well and it is at this time that we first come across the name Mercadier , a name that from now on was to be closely linked with Richard 's . |
| 22 | The way forward then is to recruit , and the importance of new members was never more critical than it is at this time . |
| 23 | ‘ How beautiful it is at this time of the year . ’ |
| 24 | It is during this time that torture most commonly occurs . |
| 25 | Since rainfall controls plant growth , and plants are the base of the food pyramid , deserts typically have only a short period when food is abundant ; it is during this time that the creatures of the desert must complete their breeding cycle . |
| 26 | It is about this time of year that life at the headquarters of the Women Professional Golfers ' European Tour gets a little hectic for Membership Secretary Marion Davies . |
| 27 | It is about this time each day that the boy goes by . ’ |
| 28 | It is from this time onwards that the architectural style of Rome was developed and crystallised . |
| 29 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
| 30 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |