Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 2 | I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time . |
| 3 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 4 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 5 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 6 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 7 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 8 | Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks . |
| 9 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 10 | She had felt at the time that he was ‘ pretty borderline for special school ’ . |
| 11 | that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm |
| 12 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 13 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 14 | You have appeared at a time when things are rather … odd . |
| 15 | A month later , during investigations made by 5 Corps after the repatriations were over ( see Chapter Eleven ) , statements were taken from a number of officers in the Durham Light Infantry and 46 Recce Regiment , describing what they had seen at the time . |
| 16 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 17 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 18 | Headhunting in Britain was imposed — seeming alien at first — in the search for remedies for Britain 's national corporate ills ; in America it had burgeoned at a time of growth and prosperity . |
| 19 | The murderer thought about it , still finding it almost as amusing as it had seemed at the time ; the murderer 's sense of humour was childlike , adolescent at the best , but secretive . |
| 20 | It had happened at a time when all I had to offer him was absolute misery for both of us . |
| 21 | Would he have flung the bitter allegations and repeated the damning indictment of her which he had made at the time of Simon 's death ? |
| 22 | Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled . |
| 23 | He had laughed at the time , but the way his stomach was behaving now , he began to fear they had not been jesting . |