Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 61 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 62 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 63 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 64 | I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants |
| 65 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
| 66 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 67 | No-one usin' it at the time so that was lucky too . ’ |
| 68 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 69 | Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time . |
| 70 | We regret having to disturb you at a time when you are busy , but the matter is important . ’ |
| 71 | conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry . |
| 72 | It only takes one at a time . |
| 73 | For this reason , cards should be exchanged one at a time and with some care . |
| 74 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |
| 75 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 76 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 77 | If it did not exist , would anyone trouble to invent it at a time when , from the Atlantic to the Urals , socialism in all its manifestations is losing the argument to liberal capitalism ? |
| 78 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
| 79 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 80 | The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority . |
| 81 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |
| 82 | What interested me at the time was whether the ‘ naturally ’ weak non-metallic crystals could be made strong too . |
| 83 | The remedy may change , or in acute injuries more than one remedy may be required , but in classical homoeopathy the remedies are administered one at a time and not as a mixture . |
| 84 | From the point of view of an application system carrying out final plausibility checks , CLE- I logical forms emerge one at a time , with no scoring information attached , and the application must decide which one to accept using an essentially binary , absolute plausibility test . |
| 85 | So we 'll just use the line feed one at a time . |
| 86 | David has always , for a time , hitched his rocket on somebody who is powerful — no question about it — he 's powerful himself , but he needed an injection of ruthlessness which Ken Pitt , being a very sweet , nice man , was n't giving him at the time . |
| 87 | I have never quite understood why " Chesh " as we called him at the time , was the only person I selected for training with the Force that my Master vetoed ; my Master also vetoed the selection of Leonard to command No 35 Squadron in the early days of the Pathfinder Force and I was never able to establish why . |
| 88 | He was 55 years old in 1860 , living in Lambeth as a bachelor — perhaps with nothing much else to interest him at the time ? |
| 89 | It is of little use to remember the answer to an examination question as you leave the room , or to say later with head in hands , " But I knew it so well " , surprised at your ability to remember it now but your inability to recall it at the time when you most needed it . |
| 90 | ‘ I myself was much too young to question it at the time , but I found out later that there was a good deal of mystery surrounding his death . ’ |