Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] at the time " in BNC.

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1 Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time .
2 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 .
3 He did not know what to do with it , Hailsham being far too busy to read it at the time .
4 That suited her at the time , it suited the law courts at the time who were the the adjudicators in the case .
5 ‘ 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 . ’
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