Example sentences of "[pron] were [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most of the survivors were ones who were working at the time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You were looking at the time , but it did n't come up , I mean . |
| 9 | If you were separated at the time , you are still treated as a dependant . |
| 10 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 11 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |
| 12 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 13 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 14 | We were separated at the time — the woman in the photographs is Phoebe . |
| 15 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 16 | ‘ This bears out what we were saying at the time . ’ |
| 17 | Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men . |
| 18 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 19 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 20 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 21 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 22 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 23 | The idea that there is some correct and timeless view , against which historical controversies can be judged , can prove an insensitive guide to the issues as they were perceived at the time . |
| 24 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 25 | in Reid in response to counsel 's submission that a husband could only be guilty of kidnapping his wife if they were separated at the time . |
| 26 | They were described at the time as an attempt at ‘ counter-revolution ’ , and in subsequent years many thousands of Albanians have been arrested and punished . |
| 27 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 28 | They are satirical and often so horrific that they were suppressed at the time . |
| 29 | The murder , it is suspected , was intended to foment open conflict in Belfast between the Ulster Defence Association and the rival Ulster Volunteer Force as relations between them were strained at the time . |