Example sentences of "[pn reflx] 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 .
8 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 .
9 Maybe she had n't quite been herself at the time .
10 She had n't been around herself at the time and said Gustav did n't like talking about it much .
11 — as she might have said herself at the time ) .
12 There is little evidence about Ermentrude herself at the time of the marriage .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 A teenager myself at the time , I found the occasion awkward and somewhat embarrassing , as I suspect some of the pupils did .
15 I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic .
16 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 .
17 I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . "
18 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 .
19 Expressing yourself at the time of negative feelings means you will be less apt to hurt someone .
20 ‘ 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 .
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