Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 32 | She would n't do it at the time , because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down . |
| 33 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 34 | Yeah I mean if it 's somebody wanting to move a three-piece suite and just a few books , no , we 'd do it at the time . |
| 35 | Expressing yourself at the time of negative feelings means you will be less apt to hurt someone . |
| 36 | ‘ I did n't feel anything at the time , ’ he continued . |
| 37 | ‘ You should have told me at the time ! ’ |
| 38 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
| 39 | When taking notes it is important to write down any new words or concepts , even if you do not understand them at the time . |
| 40 | Indeed , I probably did n't understand her at the time . |
| 41 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 42 | Mike , though he not have thought it at the time , was extremely lucky , as the aircraft hit the ground the fuselage broke open , his helmet came off , became lodged in the opening and was then crushed as the fuselage closed again . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 46 | I did n't realize it at the time but I think it wants |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 49 | No-one usin' it at the time so that was lucky too . ’ |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 ? |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 ? |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 56 | The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | What interested me at the time was whether the ‘ naturally ’ weak non-metallic crystals could be made strong too . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |