Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [det] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | He shook his head and beckoned at the same time , feeling an unutterable fool for doing so . |
| 32 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 33 | CLIVE SPUN around and collapsed at the same time , heaving from his shoulders in a spasm which threw Nina off his back . |
| 34 | She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc . |
| 35 | He added : ‘ While Britain will enter the 21st century on the back of a 19th century railway system our French partners , who started at the same time , will have built their modern system ready for the opening of the Channel Tunnel , 10 years ahead of Britain . ’ |
| 36 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
| 37 | The Heath government fell in 1974 and the Box largely fell at the same time . |
| 38 | As agriculture had so near a connection with horticulture therefore he kept at the same time an observant eye on everything which occurred in rural economy , particularly the cultivation of ploughed lands . |
| 39 | For the mid-nineteenth-century observer all history coexisted at the same time , except for that of the ancient civilisations and empires such as classical antiquity , which had been ( literally ) buried , awaiting the spades of H. Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) in Troy and Mycenae or Flinders Petrie ( 1853–1942 ) in Egypt . |
| 40 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 41 | Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves . |
| 42 | I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together . |
| 43 | Several other firms emerged at the same time and by the same process , such as Lamalie Associates in 1967 from Booz , Allen & Hamilton , and Ward Howell and Canny Bowen , in 1951 and 1954 respectively , from McKinsey . |
| 44 | Tom Russell , she learned at the same time , drank his black as well . |
| 45 | Metty is a misfit , as Golding 's Matty is in Darkness Visible , a novel which appeared at the same time as Naipaul 's . |
| 46 | As a clue to that significance we might first recall the way in which the laws regarding menstruation and childbirth and this new circumcision appeared at the same time in the history of the Jewish people , and remember what was earlier said about the nature — culture dichotomy and the need of culture to control or impose itself upon what it deems to be nature . |
| 47 | She laughed and cried at the same time , and could not let Oliver go . |
| 48 | We both spoke at the same time , and , inevitably , the same words . |
| 49 | She wept and spoke at the same time — uttering fragments of sentences , half completed threats , pieces of swear words , repeating the name Richard over and over with the intonation of a child calling for its mother . |
| 50 | They spoke at the same time . |
| 51 | ‘ I resigned at the same time as they asked for my resignation . |
| 52 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 53 | The United Kingdom announced at the same time that it was freeing Iraqi assets worth £70,000,000 ( about US$126,000,000 ) , but a UK Foreign Office spokesman denied allegations that Richer 's release had been secured by an unpublicised arrangement between Iraq and the UK , said to involve the unfreezing of part of £621,400,000 ( US$1,100 million ) held by banks in the UK . |
| 54 | Er , we also announced at the same time as the Alton , er , Towers acquisition that Longman had acquired Rank Training for eleven and a half million pounds . |
| 55 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
| 56 | A Soviet official argued at the same time that Warsaw Pact proposals on the non-expansion of military-political groupings in Europe and on limiting the scale of military exercises also involved the interests of the non-aligned countries since ‘ the tendency towards expanding the NATO bloc directly affects the newly independent countries ’ . |
| 57 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 58 | Well if I left at the same time as you he mi he might feel obliged to offer me a lift but if he did |
| 59 | But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals . |
| 60 | However , indebtedness had at the same time gone up from 90 per cent of GNP to a January 1990 level of 120 per cent , the second highest in Western Europe . |