Example sentences of "himself at the time " in BNC.

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1 The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ .
2 Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ .
3 Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational .
4 He had the curious ability to erase , or at least pretend to erase , from his memory that which did not suit his idea of himself at the time .
5 She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time .
6 ‘ Yes , it was , ’ Athelstan replied , though he remembered he had not asked that question himself at the time .
7 ‘ But my chief at Liverpool CID would not let me take part , because he was away on holiday himself at the time , and required me to stand in for him .
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