Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 2 | Now , Richard Fairbanks of New York 's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory has uncovered a detailed record which shows how fast global sea level rose at different times during the transformation from the glacial to the post-glacial world . |
| 3 | Was there anything like erm redundancy money or anything like that payed at that time when the place |
| 4 | I filled a syringe with a " mixed macterin " which we used at that time against the secondary invaders of distemper . |
| 5 | Erm we used at one time as you remember to have a full time education officer and er for a number of reasons er that er is no longer the case . |
| 6 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 7 | but I do n't think you actually mentioned at any time you know the , the wife 's involvement in it other than that point . |
| 8 | No we 're going to erm Horsham for the Christmas party , the works Christmas party and erm , the hotel where Rob stopped at last time when he was down in Horsham , that 's where they 're doing Christmas party this year , so we obviously we staying in a double room |
| 9 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history . |
| 11 | The Waste Land hardly suggests that the inhabitants of the twentieth-century city are conscious actors in fertility rites , but since these , long forgotten , underlie our behaviour , since the ‘ sexual instinct ’ plays a role in ‘ the religion and mythology of primitive peoples ( indeed in all religion ) ’ , and since Christianity and primitive ritual are linked , the poem expresses despair at the change and decay not only of city churches which Eliot visited at this time , but of all belief . |
| 12 | Studies of the 700-km 3 Bishop Tuff eruption and its precursors from Long Valley , California reveal distinct Sr-isotope differences between crystals and their host liquids and between melts erupted at different times . |
| 13 | However , Nietzsche 's first editors ( 1895 ) , then his sister ( 1897 ) , and subsequently the world at large have asserted that the scale of this last revision was substantial and , specifically-that of the book 's eventual twenty-five sections , he added at this time the final six ( 20–25 ) , which are partly ( though not , as is often said , largely ) concerned with Wagner . " |
| 14 | He added at this time that the further information was that the occupants of the flat at we were frightened of I also . |
| 15 | Was genuine he added at this time that er the further information was that the occupants of the flat at were frightened of . |
| 16 | Just a word about the Oxford goal ; I saw that , I saw erm Andy Melville score it , I was most surprised to hear it overruled at half time . |
| 17 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 18 | Not only was it situated centrally , but it hosted at that time an international exhibition which was considered an attraction for delegates . |
| 19 | This can be soft previewed at any time to ensure that the output matches with the designers intention . |
| 20 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 21 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 22 | In February 1987 it secured only 6.4% — less than the 11.8% won by the Progressive Democrats , a new party whose emergence seemed at that time to betoken the awakening of a new and more specifically political consciousness among Irish voters . |
| 23 | British companies had to build their lines between revolutions and had to be prepared to accept the damage to bridges , track , and stations caused by civil war and insurgency , but the opportunities presented in the wheat-growing and stock-rearing of Argentina , the coffee , rubber , and minerals of Brazil , the gold , silver , copper , nitrates , and sheep-farming of Chile , the cattle of Uruguay , and the sugar , coffee , cocoa , tobacco , cotton , and cattle of Venezuela seemed at that time limitless . |
| 24 | He has never forgotten the lessons he learnt at that time . |
| 25 | The concept of " open skies " was first proposed by President Eisenhower in 1955 , but rejected at that time by the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Twenty years ago few tailor shops were without a bottle of gin : the men drank as they liked ; one kept the score , and the publican came at certain times to replenish the gin bottle . |
| 27 | Villagers said that none ever came at this time of year . |
| 28 | You know the tears came at this time |
| 29 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 30 | There were controversies about various forms of Church Government and many sects flourished at this time of religious toleration . |