Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1	‘ Everyone was looking for reasons why he left us and no-one appreciated at the time that his health was suffering .
2	One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste .
3	and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and
4	And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it ,
5	If the Thamesdown one did n't , er , the officers for their own reasons have separated out this particular er , activity , erm , and I felt at the time that it was unreasonable to give a hundred percent funding to er , most C A B's but not to one .
6	Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits .
7	Michael 's idol was Buster Keaton , and he had at the time studied Keaton more than I had , and said that he had never used a double .
8	Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election .
9	He was , and he remained for the time being , a figure of comic relief .
10	Still no acknowledgement was made and it grew near the time when Gigia would be setting out on her journey .
11	‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again .
12	I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK .
13	The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough .
14	It was tough , but we got through the time somehow .
15	But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing

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