Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the same time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 2 | The most surprising observation is that the spring bloom occurred almost at the same time in the Tromsø area and at Spitzbergen , approximately 10° further north . |
| 3 | Adomnan recalls in his biography of Columba , written a century after the saint 's death , that one day the monks became aware of a strange presence in one of their pastures ; this experience occurred again at the same time every evening . |
| 4 | The incidence of bridal pregnancy and bastardy rose significantly at the same time . |
| 5 | But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time . |
| 6 | Er , the figures in paragraph five are shown there , but we had a recognition of that additional duty , and a variety of other minor changes which I wo n't go into this morning , that came through at the same time . |
| 7 | If it is obvious that US policy towards Indo-China could not be considered in isolation from its policy towards the rest of Asia , it is even more obvious that the integration of US policy for Vietnam came about at the same time as the disintegration of its policy towards China : the most traumatic episode in US power-war policies in Asia , at least until the outbreak of the Korean war . |
| 8 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 9 | Masonry developed traditionally at the same time as Norman England , but most of the buildings have been altered . |
| 10 | It was unfortunate that the Arab-Israeli war broke out at the same time and some overseas commentators took the presence of Canberras in this guise as proof of British participation in the war ! |
| 11 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 12 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 13 | never tell , a girl we know went over at the same time as he did got it this year . |
| 14 | Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped |
| 15 | We rolled up at the same time , I on my bike , the Parsons in their BMW . |
| 16 | Just over half of those who retired prematurely did so at the same time as their redundancy . |
| 17 | We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together . |
| 18 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 19 | Another man who ran off at the same time , Stephen O'Mara , was yesterday still on the run . |
| 20 | A profound depression set in at the same time , despite the fact that she knew her bowel symptoms could now be controlled quite easily . |
| 21 | These authorities are presided over by the National Water Council , set up at the same time to be a central co-ordinating body to give advice on major matters of policy ( Times , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | He stood up at the same time as she did , and caught her as she made for the door . |
| 23 | ‘ Charity begins at home , ’ Ruth suggested wryly at the same time uncharitably thinking that Maria Luisa must have put Fernando under such a terrible strain over something that had nothing to do with him . |