Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 2 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 3 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 4 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
| 5 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |
| 6 | The film was seen by many critics as Lester 's least satisfactory during that period , but it was probably far better than he believed at the time , while embroiled in battles with Frank . |
| 7 | Neither the Conservatives nor Labour , therefore , had a chance of retaining or obtaining office unless they abandoned for the time being the principal position which they fought the election to obtain . |
| 8 | On the one hand there were those introduced by British or British trained educationists because they appeared at the time to represent the ‘ best ’ education ( though naturally criteria for judging quality varied widely ) . |
| 9 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 10 | As someone said at the time , ‘ I could believe him guilty of grievous bodily harm , but not grievous bodily charm . ’ |
| 11 | It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
| 12 | As I wrote at the time , though the error may appear small , any error is significant given the close tolerances of FI cars . |
| 13 | Quite honestly , as I wrote at the time , ‘ if my waters could have broken , they would have broken ’ . |
| 14 | As I wrote at the time , I was not surprised . |
| 15 | All along , as I reported at the time , Sarah had wanted to take her baby with her . |
| 16 | I agree that the effect of Spitting Image 's caricature on Steel 's relationship with Owen was such that , as I commented at the time of the collapse of the Alliance , it was the only television programme that could claim to have brought down not just one but two political parties simultaneously . |
| 17 | I write now as I found at the time . |
| 18 | When you worked in the time shop ? |
| 19 | He came in coldness , as she thought at the time , and left in coldness , to go to his grave . |
| 20 | As one remarked at the time , those who were wondering what women 's golf was coming to were relieved to learn that the culprits were a King Charles spaniel and a mongrel she had encountered during the course of the early morning post round she does on the outskirts of Durham . |
| 21 | As we wrote at the time : |
| 22 | Buster bent over a table , on trestles ( airman 's six-foot , for the use of ) , and received his punishment from a great monster as we thought at the time , a flight sergeant RAF policeman with a cane . |
| 23 | ‘ As we said at the time of this tour 's selection , David Gower 's Test career is not necessarily finished . |
| 24 | As we reported at the time : |
| 25 | Sources say , as we suspected at the time , that any suggestion that Hewlett-Packard Co might be interested in licensing Next Computer Inc 's NextStep interface for the PA-RISC is a lot of executive hot air ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 26 | As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles . |
| 27 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 28 | David , you said that last week , and then when it came to the time |
| 29 | It must be remembered that what is described is , almost without exception , the church as it existed at the time of writing . |
| 30 | His word conveyed power and achieved results as it had from the time of creation itself . |