Example sentences of "around [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lions scrum was pushed around each time . |
| 2 | But Lord Aldington insisted : ‘ I most definitely saw him on May 25 and I remember having dinner with him on two successive nights around this time . |
| 3 | A crisis of confidence among Britain 's producers was the result of this sort of taunting , and from around this time one begins to detect in the press a sense that the nation 's honour was threatened by its film industry 's parlous condition . |
| 4 | Hitchcock was triumphantly able to achieve this sort of synthesis , but it is not surprising that Woolf was suspicious of the highbrow values that were being propagated around this time , and decided to challenge their deployment on this film . |
| 5 | ‘ Great Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role ’ taunted Dean Acheson , the American Secretary of State , around this time . |
| 6 | Around this time he was a heavy drinker although , as a conscientious professional , he did not let it affect his game . |
| 7 | Elsewhere in the District around this time , a gap between the resignation of one full-time officer and the appointment of another provoked distress and urgent resolutions to the District Council . |
| 8 | After an hour or so of drinking , these two gentlemen decided they wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villages — a motor car around this time still being something of a novelty . |
| 9 | As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation . |
| 10 | I can remember one morning around this time bringing Lord Darlington coffee in the breakfast room , and his saying to me as he folded The Times with some disgust : ‘ Frenchmen . |
| 11 | The two most prominent dogs around this time were Korobeit Hero and Grossheim Igor , who had been imported by Mr Alf Church of the Standhalf Kennels . |
| 12 | One of his key officers departed at around this time . |
| 13 | An ambitious reclamation scheme on the south coast also came to nothing around this time . |
| 14 | Around this time , Spring 1944 , we had a re-shuffle in the Met Office . |
| 15 | Around this time Heather took on a philosophical mood and confided all she wanted out of life was ‘ to be on dry land with a dry pair of knickers , clean teeth and to be able to wash in fresh water ’ . |
| 16 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 17 | Could there have been an epidemic of some kind in the village around this time ? |
| 18 | Around this time also Tickton got its first school . |
| 19 | Around this time , he cut his first record … |
| 20 | I was using mostly open G , A or E tunings around this time — mostly E , in fact , the old Vastopol tuning . |
| 21 | Were you in bands around this time ? |
| 22 | Around this time Flg.Off . |
| 23 | Around this time , the scalp 's sebaceous glands start producing less of the oil that provides healthy shine , and hair begins to lose its hue as the production of melanin ( the pigment that also colours skin and eyes ) slows down . |
| 24 | Around this time , as it was evident that the trams in London would have to be kept going for a few more years , visible external truss rods and other strengthening devices began to appear on many of the cars . |
| 25 | Her daughter drives out from Bamford once a week but around this time of year she goes to stay with some other relative , I 'm not sure where , so I dare say she is n't there at the moment and you have n't got any immediate neighbours resident . |
| 26 | Instead , around this time , I tended to express feelings of impatience and boredom . |
| 27 | Around this time they sent away some samples from the metal cathodes for examination . |
| 28 | Around this time Fred shaved his head . |
| 29 | Around this time I had three young ready for release from my original pair , Barny and Mrs Barny . |
| 30 | I 'm pleased that the Divisional Championship has been on everybody 's lips around this time each year . |