Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As someone said at the time , ‘ I could believe him guilty of grievous bodily harm , but not grievous bodily charm . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As I wrote at the time , though the error may appear small , any error is significant given the close tolerances of FI cars . |
| 4 | Quite honestly , as I wrote at the time , ‘ if my waters could have broken , they would have broken ’ . |
| 5 | As I wrote at the time , I was not surprised . |
| 6 | All along , as I reported at the time , Sarah had wanted to take her baby with her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I write now as I found at the time . |
| 9 | He came in coldness , as she thought at the time , and left in coldness , to go to his grave . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As we wrote at the time : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ As we said at the time of this tour 's selection , David Gower 's Test career is not necessarily finished . |
| 14 | As we reported at the time : |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It must be remembered that what is described is , almost without exception , the church as it existed at the time of writing . |
| 18 | His word conveyed power and achieved results as it had from the time of creation itself . |
| 19 | Their final work , a book on the geology of Scotland , though never completed in their lifetimes , was published in 1930 as it stood at the time of their deaths . |
| 20 | ‘ Self-government ’ was thus conceived not as the inevitable prelude to letting India go , as it appeared at the time and has appeared since to eyes less clouded than Montagu 's by belief in the possibility of voluntary servitude , but as the natural means of keeping it . |
| 21 | As he said at the time : ‘ I 've never been seen naked in any bed , never . |
| 22 | As he noted at the time , new houses intended for single families were subdivided into tenements on their first letting , for the very poor simply could not afford to pay their landlords a realistic return on their investment . |
| 23 | Early in 1822 , when Bentham was beginning to undertake the drafting of the Constitutional Code , he wrote a substantial manuscript which brought together several strands in his constitutional thought to serve , as he intended at the time , as an introduction to the Code . |