Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The details of Julian 's life are not known , but it is highly unlikely that she was professed at the time of her visionary experience — if at all . |
| 8 | I sincerely hope that Mrs. X 's complaint was not treated in a dismissive way because , as she readily admitted , she was drunk at the time of the assault . |
| 9 | Murray , who was employed at the time as the works manager at the premises in Broadfold Road , Bridge of Don , has denied a total of 13 charges , including four allegations that he assaulted a number of men on various occasions by injecting them with either heroin or Temgesic . |
| 10 | Well forgive me , the , the reason for that is , it was explained at the time if one 's going to defend the decision of where you 're going to put your roads , then you 've got in reality look at all them options ridiculous some they will be , whether they dig tunnels under the Orwell or knocking down Wordsworth Road I mean it 's all got to be looked at . |
| 11 | Yeah but I , I think that 's the importance basically I mean reading through this it 's very easy to sort of in , in a way you know go , go to this point of view because it was written at the time , but I mean we , we still now that it was a very sort of say left wing point of view |
| 12 | One Russian paper , described as ‘ highly conservative ’ , contained a piece , some of which , it was said at the time , was barely capable of being rendered into printable English . |
| 13 | It was pressed at the time when Red Rhino were having their well documented financial troubles . |
| 14 | It was felt at the time that the upward movement was out of line with the underlying trend and the latest figures analysed by Reward suggest it has in fact been short-lived . |
| 15 | It was felt at the time that regional disparities would inhibit commitment by member states to such integration . |
| 16 | It was built at the time when local builders possessed that magic formula for rightness of scale . |
| 17 | It was thought at the time that the talks would result in some extension of the deadline . |
| 18 | It was reported at the time that ten or more navvies met their death fighting and falling from scaffolding as this tunnel is unusually high and was built to accommodate double tracks . |
| 19 | It was reported at the time that Yorkshire secretary J.H. Nash considered Fiddling inconsistent , although capable of brilliance . |
| 20 | It was known at the time that there was going to be opposition to them and it was an absolute recipe for debate after debate , council meeting after council meeting , committee meeting after committee meeting . |
| 21 | The many underground railway schemes on which he was engaged at the time of his death had to be completed by others , but the Greathead shield is his lasting memorial . |
| 22 | He was employed at the time at Killingworth colliery , in charge of the steam engines used to raise coal and water from the mines . |
| 23 | This , in turn , was part of what was seen at the time as the natural extension of scientific and technological principles from their successful application to the material and animal world to apply to human beings themselves . |
| 24 | I ask whether the legacy is only of what was owed at the time the will was made or if later increases in that sum by way of interest are also included . |
| 25 | The government was attracted by the idea of changing Sudan from an exporter of cotton , groundnuts and gum arabic into what was dubbed at the time ‘ the breadbasket of the Middle East ’ . |
| 26 | If you later disagree with the company about what was said at the time , having your own record could prove invaluable . |
| 27 | On the latter point , the hon. Gentleman is well aware of what was said at the time of the Barlow Clowes affair , following an investigation by the ombudsman into what was seen to be a unique set of circumstances . |
| 28 | So it seemed to us that the the general sense and purpose of the policy was was not in a sense disputed but that er in order to avoid a leng what was considered at the time to be perhaps unnecessary detail and going into erm too much detail that er we felt that the agricultural land policies could be left to perform the sort of main objective that we were seeking through , I think it was E three at the time , was was the proposed policy . |
| 29 | On the 22nd Gracey 's forces assisted the French in what , despite what was claimed at the time and subsequently , was an almost bloodless coup by which they occupied the Town Hall and other central points ; and two nights after that about a hundred and fifty French civilians , including many women and children , were massacred by Vietnamese who burst into the Cite Heraud district past indifferent Japanese guards . |
| 30 | It took Stephanie some time to realise that she always refused what was offered at the time when it was offered , whether out of a curious notion of good manners or out of cussedness Stephanie was never wholly sure . |