Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match . |
| 32 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 33 | This leads to a further conclusion that these wares were brought to the site by the Catuvellauni , who had at that time embarked on westward expansion . |
| 34 | When you had the blues erm near by you said at one time that it was just away from here , was there , was there any , was it , was there any bother after that after the blues then or was it okay ? |
| 35 | The nastiest little attack we endured at this time came from , of all papers , the Lancet . |
| 36 | Everybody whom we met at that time remembered you all with great affection . |
| 37 | I filled a syringe with a " mixed macterin " which we used at that time against the secondary invaders of distemper . |
| 38 | Erm we used at one time as you remember to have a full time education officer and er for a number of reasons er that er is no longer the case . |
| 39 | The only one interested at that time was Thornton , so he had to stay for the moment . |
| 40 | We warned at that time that the underlying quality of these products was questionable but that they might nonetheless enjoy success because quality or lack of it is not apparent in the external appearance of the products . |
| 41 | I expect that not only can the hon. Gentleman remember that , but that he will recall that we warned at that time that the reforms were illusory and would not work . |
| 42 | We decided at that time to follow Brosman 's erm regimen which er had had the lowest recurrence rate then reported . |
| 43 | Brand new engine , introduced in nineteen eighty three , and we decided at that time to go metric . |
| 44 | The only other thing to do is , is do what er er , we did at one time and just get a bright beer and open it up and er , and then pull it . |
| 45 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |
| 46 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 47 | Oh we had it was the Airleys we had at that time . |
| 48 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 49 | It labelled them as personal opinion and suggested that in future the press question everything said at any time by DEC staff , no matter how high ranking , to assure themselves they are getting the company line . |
| 50 | There existed at that time , a real threat of an invasion of the British Isles by the French forces under Napoleon , so militia groups were formed and Martello Towers were erected around the more vulnerable coast line , to ward off and give warning of any sign of an invading fleet . |
| 51 | There had at one time , Agnes had told her , been a full complement of horses and hounds , for Sir John had been a keen sportsman . |
| 52 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 53 | They argued at that time that pedestrian crossings of railways were perfectly safe . |
| 54 | Mr. Spearing : Is the Leader of the House aware that those who are concerned about this matter are grateful to him for referring to the Select Committee 's report of two years ago and that we look forward to the Government implementing the intention that they stated at that time ? |
| 55 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 56 | By imperial unification they meant at this time a federal union of Britain and the white dominions , a scheme differing little in its essentials from other schemes of imperial union which had occupied the minds of the British political classes from time to time during the latter part of the nineteenth century . |
| 57 | On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ . |
| 58 | Now when I tell you about lodging houses , we had four registered lodging houses in Ipswich that they had at that time . |
| 59 | They left at closing time split up outside , I reckon . |
| 60 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |