Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Inspector did you at the time , know of Lawrence ? |
| 32 | I liked it at the time , yes . |
| 33 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 34 | It never struck me at the time . |
| 35 | It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun . |
| 36 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
| 37 | What struck me at the time about the " battle " between Bennett and Slessor was that Bennett acted as an agent for his C-in-C as well as in his , own personal interest . |
| 38 | The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up . |
| 39 | Volker Rath , the German public prosecutor , tactfully said nothing at the time but later announced that Germany was suspending proceedings against the two Libyans for lack of evidence . |
| 40 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
| 41 | That suited her at the time , it suited the law courts at the time who were the the adjudicators in the case . |
| 42 | She denied it at the time , but soon she realized that those were his inclinations . |
| 43 | And you probably had it at the time . |
| 44 | ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time . |
| 45 | Alan never said anything at the time , but Willy vanished from Oxford shortly afterwards . |
| 46 | ‘ Because ‘ e 's my mate , and it annoyed me at the time to see ‘ im get ahead of me . ’ |