Example sentences of "[pron] at the time " in BNC.
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1 | As he later admitted in an interview with CA Magazine , ‘ I said to someone at the time , I never again want to conduct a debate lasting three years without once being able to raise my voice ’ . |
2 | 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 ’ . |
3 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
4 | Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
7 | ‘ Yes , it was , ’ Athelstan replied , though he remembered he had not asked that question himself at the time . |
8 | ‘ 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 . |
9 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |
10 | I left school in 1942 and got a job at the airport , which at the times we were living in always something exciting seemed to be happening . |
11 | It gave the 33,000 manual workforce 8.9 per cent , which at the time was considerably higher than the ‘ going rate ’ . |
12 | Once he had made the switch , however , Finniston tackled his successive responsibilities with great relish , including the awesome task of reorganising the British Steel Corporation , which at the time was 260,000 strong . |
13 | His first challenge was to take charge of a nuclear research centre for C. A. Parsons , which at the time employed 350 graduates and trained scientists , but for which there was little work . |
14 | What is new however is the suggestion , which at the time of writing must have appeared as the height of impertinence , that the Greek and Roman states originated in much the same kind of confederation as the Iroquois . |
15 | The 68-year-old financier was found guilty of misleading thousands of investors into buying risky securities in Lincoln 's parent company American Continental , which at the time was already in deep financial trouble . |
16 | These two arms shipments to Iran resulted in the much publicised release of David Jacobsen to Terry Waite on 2 November 1986 which at the time was said to have been made on humanitarian grounds following Waite 's appeal to the Iranians . |
17 | The site is recorded during the 16th century as being occupied by ‘ Sury ’ or ‘ Shewry ’ Mills , which at the time was operated as both a corn and two fulling mills . |
18 | Schott was attached to the Raiding Forces Staff G(R) at headquarters , which at the time was led by Colonel Pembroke . |
19 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
20 | They recorded one demo tape at Cargo Studios in Rochdale which at the time was being patronised by a legion of new wave bands spanning Joy Division to Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark . |
21 | Morning by morning in my regular reading , which at the time was in the Song of Songs , I heard the Lord calling me to a new stage in ministry . |
22 | Obviously uncertain as to his own musical direction , Moore recorded with Lizzy , but was not a full-time member of the band , which at the time featured Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham . |
23 | look at the US , which at the time seemed |
24 | The risk is that the procedure could possibly self-incriminate a firm if , for instance , it marked a document which subsequently proved to be fraudulent or defective and which at the time gave no rise for any audit comments . |
25 | The world entered a long-term period of recession and chronic unemployment , both of which at the time of writing seem to have become endemic to our advanced societies . |
26 | In spite of local cooperative strength there was none in West Ham because of potential conflict with the West Ham Trades Council and Labour Representation Committee , which at the time controlled selection of Labour candidates . |
27 | I noticed the attractive terracotta-tiled floor and another open fireplace which at the time housed the refrigerator . |
28 | I made myself a coffee and went to bed , pausing to look in and say goodnight to Nigel on the way , which at the time , and since , did n't seem at all an unusual thing to do . |
29 | in addition , I have a Blue Ring Angel which at the time of purchase had a few white-spot-like fluffy things on the edges of his fins . |
30 | Although one of the most interesting objects in the sale , it was not considered sufficiently rare — or Bavarian — to be among the items withdrawn from the sale at the instigation of the Bavarian State , which at the time of writing was still negotiating with Fürstin Gloria over what exactly will still come up in the future Regensburg sale . |