Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 2 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 3 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
| 4 | Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ? |
| 5 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
| 6 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 7 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 8 | I insulted him at the time . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 10 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
| 11 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 12 | I understood it at the time . |
| 13 | I liked it at the time , yes . |
| 14 | My business statement every week is based on the position as I see it at the time and we have organised matters at the time . |
| 15 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
| 16 | I then did a series of films with Robert de Vicenzo , big money in those days , which convinced me at the time that Roberto would win the 1967 Open . |
| 17 | No-one usin' it at the time so that was lucky too . ’ |
| 18 | St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time . |
| 19 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 20 | She denied it at the time , but soon she realized that those were his inclinations . |
| 21 | A new Hollywood was being born , but no one realized it at the time . |
| 22 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority . |
| 26 | I I was , I were help him point it at the time . |
| 27 | In Gregory 's account , Chlodomer , before setting off to Vézeronce , asked his half-brother , Theuderic , to accompany him , and the latter agreed ; but when Childebert and Chlothar asked him to join them at the time of their later campaign against the Burgundian kingdom , he refused . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |