Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 2 | She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report . |
| 3 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 4 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 5 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 6 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
| 7 | But it 's not part of the the police case here , that they knew at the time that they entered the flat . |
| 8 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
| 9 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
| 10 | I am happy to acknowledge the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council , and the questions that it had at the time of its submission need to be dealt with . |
| 11 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |
| 12 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 13 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 14 | Great praise has been given to Mr. Baker , the United States Secretary of State , for arranging that conference and so fulfilling the commitment that he gave at the time of the Gulf war , when he said that he and President Bush would do all that they could to bring the parties to the negotiating table . |
| 15 | The film was seen by many critics as Lester 's least satisfactory during that period , but it was probably far better than he believed at the time , while embroiled in battles with Frank . |
| 16 | ‘ Everyone was looking for reasons why he left us and no-one appreciated at the time that his health was suffering . |
| 17 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 18 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 19 | If the Thamesdown one did n't , er , the officers for their own reasons have separated out this particular er , activity , erm , and I felt at the time that it was unreasonable to give a hundred percent funding to er , most C A B's but not to one . |
| 20 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 21 | Michael 's idol was Buster Keaton , and he had at the time studied Keaton more than I had , and said that he had never used a double . |
| 22 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |
| 23 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 24 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 25 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 26 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 27 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |
| 28 | On the one hand there were those introduced by British or British trained educationists because they appeared at the time to represent the ‘ best ’ education ( though naturally criteria for judging quality varied widely ) . |
| 29 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 30 | As someone said at the time , ‘ I could believe him guilty of grievous bodily harm , but not grievous bodily charm . ’ |