Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were I was I was patrolling at the time , with me partner . |
| 2 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , I think I 've forgotten what I was thinking at the time , erm |
| 4 | Only I was passing at the time . |
| 5 | Later that evening , going on my farewell walk round Cuzco , I fought to be positive , talking to myself like a character in a novel I was reading at the time , David Copperfield 's aunt . |
| 6 | No , I do n't know what it , he did n't bang on the doors , I was hoovering at the time Is that nice ? |
| 7 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 8 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 9 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 10 | ‘ Now I sing it and listen to the words again and appreciate more than ever what I was feeling at the time , ’ he told friends . |
| 11 | the communism , the Kuomintang which are united at the time , and obviously the , the Kuomintang putting forward the idea of a restoration |
| 12 | Supporting evidence is also taken from data collected by a survey of libraries in the UK carried out by CRUS ( The Centre for Research on User Studies ) , during the early part of 1984 , which included a series of questions concerning training , not all of which were analysed at the time ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 13 | Usually it 's D W Griffith of America who 's given credit for the intelligent use of the close-up erm but Smith was immensely interested in the portraiture area of photography , and made a series of films which were called at the time ‘ facials ’ . |
| 14 | All the intriguing questions which were asked at the time , not least as to why she contributed , either deliberately or through naivety , to it becoming one of the sporting mysteries of the year in the first place , will have to remain unanswered . |
| 15 | In the accounts of British politics which were published at the time , ministerial responsibility was seen as the key and essential principle of the whole system . |
| 16 | But nevertheless it 's im important to remember that this is a survey erm which is conducted at the time of year when most compan or many companies raise their list prices and if one looks at the past sort of record of this survey both at the regional level and the national level , one generally does see a bit of an upturn in the pr in the prices numbers at this time of year because people are raising their list prices erm and once you allow for that erm I think these numbers are er very good in terms of prices trends , very low for the time of year . |
| 17 | That is a duty which he owes to all those who may have occasion to use the article : and it is a duty which is broken at the time when he is negligent in making the article . |
| 18 | The only aspect of the contract that can vary is the price at which the exchange is made , which is determined at the time of the transaction . |
| 19 | In addition a bonus , which is guaranteed at the time the account is opened , will be paid on maturity . |
| 20 | It was one of those very profound observations which was misunderstood at the time but is now widely accepted by Roman Catholic scholars among others . |
| 21 | He had been employed in the 1960s by the firm , which was known at the time as Maranite Ltd , when asbestos fibre was used to make boards for doors for the shipbuilding industry . |
| 22 | Under the Administration of justice Act 1982 , where a will contains a devise or bequest to a child or remoter descendant of the testator , and the intended beneficiary dies before the testator , leaving issue who are living at the time of the testator 's death , then , unless a contrary intention appears in the will , the devise or bequest passes to the issue living at the testator 's death . |
| 23 | When you feel like ‘ beating yourself up ’ , observe how you are acting at the time . |
| 24 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
| 25 | And th the stories that you read are all , all for children are they ones that you 're reading from a book , or are they ones that you 're inventing at the time , or what ? |
| 26 | Oh in fact you 're not even you could never have to go back to that same place but depends on where what you 're doing at the time that assignment comes up for reselling . |
| 27 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 28 | Most of the survivors were ones who were working at the time . |
| 29 | In those days there was n't a great deal of of mining , I mean was n't open , and er there was a tremendous amount , well there 's a fair amount of of traffic agricultural traffic , and I mean one had to accept that virtually everything came in , all coal , road stone , erm goods required er for well 's who were going at the time , they er they used the railway . |
| 30 | You were looking at the time , but it did n't come up , I mean . |