Example sentences of "time [pron] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose . |
| 2 | By this time I was a nervous wreck and The house in Govan was a shambles . |
| 3 | ‘ From the time I was a child my dream was to win the Grand National and the biggest thing I 've gained from it is confidence . |
| 4 | Of course , at the time I was a punk and I had all this blue hair and everything and he must have thought , ‘ My God , who is this strange girl ? ’ |
| 5 | By this time I was a serious amateur naturalist with a special interest in anything in feathers . |
| 6 | ‘ My father , Dewi Morgan taught me shoemaking from the time I was a little girl , ’ she said quickly , almost resentfully , ‘ and I 'm better at the work than many men . ’ |
| 7 | All the time I was a child . |
| 8 | At that time I was a Member of Parliament . |
| 9 | ‘ Last time I was a war hero . |
| 10 | Well the last time I was a chippie on twelve grand . |
| 11 | There was a moment 's silence as he prowled round the room , his misery betrayed by every contained movement of his lean male body , before he added wryly , ‘ At the time I was the only man in Copenhagen who did n't know it . ’ |
| 12 | That wretched obsession with time which was a hallmark of my own age had not yet set in ; there were not even railway timetables to make people conform to the clock . |
| 13 | And they could have easily been one up at that particular time which was a minute . |
| 14 | Roddick did not offer any resistance , because at the time she was a frustrated actress and she felt teaching English and history to a class of forty kids at a local secondary school was the next best thing to acting . |
| 15 | She had been beaten into submission from the time she was a baby . |
| 16 | From this time she was a south-eastern power . |
| 17 | At the same time she was a good all-round athlete . |
| 18 | At the same time she was a foreigner , a foreigner with privileges , a rare bird — catch Constanza not having the best of both worlds . |
| 19 | Last time she was a bit young |
| 20 | ‘ For a time she was the friend of Lord Southampton . |
| 21 | Last time she was the agent for the then-MP , Mr Ian Wrigglesworth , and she was more than willing to step into his shoes . |
| 22 | And I was very friendly with the manager 's secretary of the Co-op , Cyril at that time who was a big noise in , and er he furnished it for us at wholesale price you know and everything , they furnished the bungalow . |
| 23 | By this time there was a Land Rover and an unmarked escort [ car ] at the scene … |
| 24 | Once upon a time there was a man who thought he could be a dragon-master . |
| 25 | At the time there was a postal strike and I did n't hear from David for about 3 or 4 weeks . |
| 26 | ‘ About that time there was a notorious murderer at large . |
| 27 | Local magazines were started and in time there was a national monthly , The Free Church Chronicle as well as a monthly magazine for the family , The Freechurchman . |
| 28 | The last time there was a serious battle for the post was 1951 , when Mr W S Morrison , Conservative MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury , was elected , defeating Major J Milner , Labour MP for Leeds South East , who had been deputy Speaker in the previous Parliament . |
| 29 | For a long time there was a tradition that the mill took its name from a period in 1629 , when The Crown had 610 guns cast for The States General of Holland . |
| 30 | Then , with the Blitz , German bombers droned overhead on their way to London , to devastate the city Virginia loved with a passion , and the windows of Monk 's House rattled every time there was a heavy bombing raid those sixty-odd miles away . |