Example sentences of "this was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 2 | This was about the only use for insect repellent , as the mosquitoes seemed to have become hardened to the hundreds of tourists who had trekked through before us . |
| 3 | This was about the only thing that ‘ Damnation Derek ’ got right ! |
| 4 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 5 | This was about the year 1200 ( the charter is undated ) , but there is the fishpond today . |
| 6 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 7 | He was the first big money(950,000) signning by Allan Clark , personally I think Clark just signed him because everybody else was spending absurd amounts money on crap , this was about the time malcolm allison was spending 1 to 2 million quid every other week on unknown bits of shit , so clarke thought lets join in . |
| 8 | I really I was seeing her , because I was n't happy about the publicity , the way it had described audio description I did n't think it was good and Alex was unhappy about the way they were describing some language things , which cos they 're not doing erm , and we just went in and he just said right just , erm well I 've kept you some seats for a performance on the sixteenth of September , this was about the |
| 9 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 10 | The United goal never really looked in any great danger … this was about the only lapse … |
| 11 | ‘ This was at the church just down the road from here ? ’ |
| 12 | Turning to Europe , Mr Ridley said that the Government was pressing other EC countries to reduce their industrial subsidies , for this was at the heart of a genuine single market after 1992 . |
| 13 | Health authority staff , not unreasonably , felt that this was at the cost of forgoing routine casework support for a wide range of people ( horizontal efficiency ) and from their point of view , therefore , the developmental role of the CMHTs represented an unacceptable opportunity cost . |
| 14 | Coincidentally this was at the height of the News International affair , which undoubtedly provided a severe test for the Code and its guidelines . |
| 15 | This was at the time the government introduced conscription , when the travelling medical boards had instructions to discharge unfit men , to take the place of those called up . |
| 16 | It did launch a general economic survey in 1953 , but this was at the request of the Special Council of Ministers , itself responding to national government worries about a slump in demand . |
| 17 | This was at the limit of the effective range of canister but he could afford to wait no longer ; his men were so weak , their movements so sluggish that they would need every extra second if they were to re-load and fire another charge before the enemy reached the ramparts . |
| 18 | This was at the language school in Leningrad , with all the lessons in English . |
| 19 | ‘ This was at the Palace ? ’ |
| 20 | And this was at the back of the head , only the central seam contaminated , and that only meagrely . |
| 21 | This was at the Apollo 17 site where a sample was chipped from a boulder several metres across . |
| 22 | In half ( 11 cases ) this was at the patients ' request because of poor function . |
| 23 | ‘ This was at the police station , was it ? ’ |
| 24 | That 's a couple of well actually what it is the there was a hundred ninety and er then we had er she says but I want the hundred off you in February which was This was at the just bef just after Christmas . |
| 25 | It won , it won the best kit car and this was at the national show so you imagine how good this thing was . |
| 26 | Keynes thought this was worth the whole of the rest of the White Paper put together . |
| 27 | Since this was under the cannon of the town , at least on the Scots side of the river , it was unlikely to be guarded . |
| 28 | Due to the high cost of operating a high powered aircraft like the Firefly ( this was during the mid-1960s , before ‘ warbirds ’ were commonplace ) , the aircraft was reluctantly grounded , but maintained in good order . |
| 29 | This was during the war |
| 30 | this was during the school holidays was it ? |