Example sentences of "[pn reflx] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ‘ lets go ’ in a frightening tantrum — banging his head , kicking , screaming and yelling — when he can not get his own way , such as when you try to insist on his doing something , refuse his commands or attend to people other than himself at a time when he wants your undivided attention . |
| 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 | It was certainly significant to the next stage of Nicholson 's career , and indeed what was happening in Hollywood itself at a time of changing tastes which made it almost impossible to predict what next year 's cinema audience would go into raptures about . |
| 10 | On a commercial note , it may well be that the insertion of a landlord 's break will reduce the market rent obtainable for the property , a fact which will doubtless manifest itself at the time of the first rent review after the landlord 's power to break has become exercisable . |
| 11 | Maybe she had n't quite been herself at the time . |
| 12 | She had n't been around herself at the time and said Gustav did n't like talking about it much . |
| 13 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 14 | There is little evidence about Ermentrude herself at the time of the marriage . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've always wanted to meet you to say something … just to say I 'm sorry , but … but I could n't help meself at the time . |
| 16 | A teenager myself at the time , I found the occasion awkward and somewhat embarrassing , as I suspect some of the pupils did . |
| 17 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |
| 18 | However , the main problem that concerned Pat , Gabriel and myself at the time was not so much the details of the biochemistry , but a theoretically more important matter . |
| 19 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 20 | Primarily though it 's how you are in yourself at the time which determines whether you are going to get up the mountain and get back down . |
| 21 | Expressing yourself at the time of negative feelings means you will be less apt to hurt someone . |
| 22 | ‘ Your'e better hurting yourself at the time , because you 're going to feel awful when you see the paper and it 's not right , ’ he rationalizes . |