Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cud were my favourite band at the time , ’ he says . |
| 2 | It is my personal feeling at the time of writing that there is no more danger in wintering or cruising in Tunisia than before , but war with Iraq might change the situation . |
| 3 | My only thought at the time was to wipe out the memory of the ordeal you 'd been made to suffer by the man you thought you loved ! ’ |
| 4 | My only support at the time came from a Nigerian girl and a Ugandan Asian girl who were also in my class and shared my deep sense of alienation from our environment . |
| 5 | Everybody had their own problems and I had mine with losing two the two babies , I had mine wondering if I 'd lose another you see and that that was my particular worry at the time . |
| 6 | ’ On reading these lines I realised that , if the word ‘ starving ’ were to be substituted for the word ‘ dying ’ , they could be read as a description of my own attitude at the time I was anorexic . |
| 7 | On reading the works of Sylvia Plath , who did indeed live the life of suicide , I have noticed that her comments on impingement often seem to coincide with my own feelings at the time I was anorexic . |
| 8 | My own reaction at the time — a guilty feeling of my own inadequacy as both feeder and fed , mingled with a wish that she had not told me — indicates that this is an important piece of information . |
| 9 | She bought her first antique when she was just a teenager — an Edwardian bed for £8 , slightly less than her weekly wage at the time . |
| 10 | such person has not reached his or her seventy-first birthday at the time of injury |
| 11 | Its Gothic settlers were already far advanced along the road of assimilating the culture and the religion of their Roman subjects at the time of their conversion to Catholicism in the 580s . |
| 12 | He 's in all the typical things a young man who 's too quick does , that 's fly off the road all the time , but that 's part of the normal learning curve , and I think that he 'll be trouble for every team that does n't have him in their actual car at the time . |
| 13 | So far as the acquiring company is concerned , the shares transferred to it are acquired at their actual value at the time of transfer , so that that forms the base value if and when they come to be disposed of . |
| 14 | His link with the redoubtable Mrs Curdle is a long one , and strengthened by her annual visit at the time of the fair . |
| 15 | In such circumstances , the counsellor will often find that invaluable help and information can be obtained from relatives and friends , who may have been aware of the personal circumstances , but perhaps unaware of their full significance at the time . |
| 16 | The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 . |
| 17 | Their only son at the time , a cousin of my father 's called William Bayles Brown , went out on Cotherstone Moor in a snow storm to gather up some sheep , and never came back . |
| 18 | Their mean age at the time of evaluation was 2.2 ( 1.3 ) years with an age range of one month to four years . |
| 19 | One of the difficulties of using politicians ' or military leaders ' diaries is that they are always likely to be personal justifications of their own actions at the time , and of course they give the impression that the whole of history consists of political intrigue or war . |
| 20 | National Express , which stormed back into the black in line with its own forecasts at the time of flotation in December , added a penny to 192p . |
| 21 | But if selection is to take place , it seems reasonable to attempt to do so on the basis of what an organisation saw as important in its own terms at the time , rather than attempting to apply current research criteria to the process . |
| 22 | She should have stayed with Fernando , she should have had faith in her own feelings at the time — and his . |
| 23 | New Life Designs organises festivals of mind , body and spirit , and is celebrating its tenth anniversary at the time of writing . |
| 24 | He started his political career at the time when the Cenomarv of Brixia answered the call to rebellion from the last Punic commander in Italy , Hamilcar . |
| 25 | Thomas believes that he sipped his favourite drink at the time , Campari and soda , because he believed — in the terminology of the time — that was the ‘ with-it ’ thing to do . |
| 26 | The Last of the Mohicans had been his favourite book at the time ; he had insisted on being Hawkeye and Tim Skerritt on being the treacherous Indian , Magua . |
| 27 | In subsection ( 2 ) above ‘ necessaries ’ means goods suitable to the condition in life of the minor or other person concerned and to his actual requirements at the time of the sale and delivery . ’ |
| 28 | " The grand old man " of the BDDA , George Frederick Healey , was in his eightieth year at the time of the Birmingham Congress . |
| 29 | He had a point , though I ca n't say I appreciated his little joke at the time . |
| 30 | Jacques had already put in a plea to this effect in December 1954 , when asked by the National WEA officers to state his ideal requirements at the time of negotiations with the Ministry following the Ashby Report . |