Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] at [art] 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 | 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 . |
5 | Or so it seemed at the time . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Well we laughed at the time did n't we . |
9 | Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans . |
10 | Certainly I thought at the time that Hunt would end up sponsored by Marlboro and driving a McLaren . |