Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.

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2 It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman .
3 Were you aware at the time that it was a small house ?
4 In other words , contemporaries viewed bribery as a bargain in which a vote was exchanged for something tangible at a time of election , but quite apart from the general distaste for such transactions , there was insufficient patronage available to permit its lavish use , and there was certainly never enough money .
5 The shed running foreman had asked Sam if he would take young John as there was no one available at the time .
6 Like many animals which only produce one young at a time and may not breed every year , individuals are potentially very long lived , fifty or sixty years may not be unusual for some .
7 We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed .
8 And were they faulty at the time that you the shop sold then to you ?
9 I thought it odd at the time that he should feel so at home there . ’
10 I w I I personally er made it clear at the time when they changed the rules er er fairly recently , that I did n't think they should .
11 Thus an order of the court that a former council house or New Town Development House be transferred to one party of the marriage will not necessitate at the time of the transfer repayment of the discount or any part of it allowable at the time of purchase .
12 To be understood in its own terms , his policy should be seen not as the implementation of a " vision " of some future world order radically different from anything existing at the time , but as a series of practical initiatives to accelerate and to exploit an already occurring transformation .
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