Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | When you feel like ‘ beating yourself up ’ , observe how you are acting at the time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You were looking at the time , but it did n't come up , I mean . |
| 16 | If you were separated at the time , you are still treated as a dependant . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You see , she was wandering at the time . ’ |
| 21 | Caron wrote it in the aftermath of the '92 riots in LA where she was living at the time . |
| 22 | He became very confused and it was suggested that the squadron would like something which she was wearing at the time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 25 | WHY Do we drink coffee ? one answer is to keep us interested in what we are doing at the time — typing , say , or repairing a car . |
| 26 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 27 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 28 | We were separated at the time — the woman in the photographs is Phoebe . |
| 29 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 30 | ‘ This bears out what we were saying at the time . ’ |