Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 2 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 3 | She was a real beauty , or so I thought at the time . |
| 4 | So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button . |
| 5 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 6 | Or so it seemed at the time . |
| 7 | ‘ You approached Miss Needham , repeated Markby evenly , ‘ whether or not you knew at the time that was her name , and you asked her to sign . |
| 8 | ‘ Whether or not they objected at the time of the planning application we ca n't say . ’ |
| 9 | It 's usually er er males that go to wars rather than females , and you can waste them on a vast scale like we did at the time of the first world war and , and find virtually no effect on your population . |
| 10 | The way forward could only be through a measure of government intervention and inevitably it provoked at the time and in its later consequences , or lack of them , sharp controversy which did much to form the particular arguments reformers used to articulate their basic ideological assumptions . |
| 11 | I said then well I said from the time now , I said there is nobody I said , can sleep on those mattresses . |
| 12 | Well we laughed at the time did n't we . |
| 13 | I honestly ca n't remember how I felt at the time — I think I was just shocked . |
| 14 | The publishing world would be badly hit if politicians did not bring forth their diaries from time to time , showing just how they reacted at the time to particular world events . |
| 15 | If Britain could be described in any useful way as a society at ease with itself twenty years ago , then that was certainly not how it felt at the time . |
| 16 | Cowdrey recalled how he felt at the time . |
| 17 | Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans . |
| 18 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 19 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 20 | Certainly I thought at the time that Hunt would end up sponsored by Marlboro and driving a McLaren . |