Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … . |
| 2 | FIFA president Joao Havelange and general secretary Sepp Blatter were holding a crisis meeting at the time with UEFA officials and French federation president Jean Fournet-Fayard , who had been urgently summoned to Zurich . |
| 3 | One source was a body working at the time of the publication of Barlow , in association with the National Council of Social Science : the Hygiene Committee of the Women 's Group on Public Welfare which met between 1939 and 1942 . |
| 4 | Traditional options are contracts written by stock exchange market makers entitling their clients to buy or sell quoted shares in some stock in the future at a price fixed at the time the option contract is purchased . |
| 5 | A friend said at the time : ‘ The break up was due to the pressures of a bad season . |
| 6 | However any small boat owner will appreciate not only the need for recording navigational information but also the pleasure to be gained after the event in recalling the events of a passage or cruise through the pages of a log kept at the time . |
| 7 | Clearly , MDC 's initial boundaries had been too tightly drawn — a fact recognised at the time — and much work remained to be tackled in surrounding areas . |
| 8 | If opinions are what you seek , you are probably better looking a source written at the time of the issue you have chosen by a person of sound mind . |
| 9 | The date of the coronation — an event regarded at the time as a rushed and shabby affair — has inspired comment , for it was the 13th , the thirtieth anniversary of the battle of Flodden . |
| 10 | Such a notice may be served where an odour has occurred and is likely to recur on the same premises , the advantage being that unlike an abatement notice there is no need for an odour to exist at the time of service . |
| 11 | Born and reared within its environments , joining up straight from school as an eighteen-year-old seemed at the time no great trauma . |