Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ I never noticed at the time . |
| 3 | Sometimes , she almost screamed at the time it took . |
| 4 | ‘ Part of his problem was that he was just doing what everybody else did at the time , and it killed him . |
| 5 | A defendant may state that he honestly thought at the time that the girl was above 16 and that he never thought to enquire , or that the girl was dressed up and wearing make-up . |
| 6 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 7 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |