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Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time .
2	The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe .
3	Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) .
4	I write now as I found at the time .
5	All along , as I reported at the time , Sarah had wanted to take her baby with her .
6	I assumed at the time that he was crying for the garden and what he 'd done to it .
7	It was , I assumed at the time , perfect love .
8	Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans .
9	The only clue ( and one I ignored at the time ) , was Selkirk 's interest in the Abbey of St Denis to the north of the city .
10	I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms .
11	It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped .
12	Anyway , I paid at the time .
13	I agree that the effect of Spitting Image 's caricature on Steel 's relationship with Owen was such that , as I commented at the time of the collapse of the Alliance , it was the only television programme that could claim to have brought down not just one but two political parties simultaneously .
14	One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste .
15	I may not have understood everything I heard at the time , but later it all slotted into place .
16	I coped at the time but now , five years on , I feel guilty and resentful about the whole affair .
17	The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough .
18	In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems .
19	I honestly ca n't remember how I felt at the time — I think I was just shocked .
20	I felt at the time , that if such a Call sere presented I should have great difficulty , indeed , in declining it , even in the face of much inconvenience and pecuniary sacrifice .
21	If the Thamesdown one did n't , er , the officers for their own reasons have separated out this particular er , activity , erm , and I felt at the time that it was unreasonable to give a hundred percent funding to er , most C A B's but not to one .
22	I know now , although I think I knew at the time , why one was so cared for by the ordinary people of Bury in 1941 .
23	‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again .
24	‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said .
25	He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time .
26	I looked at the time and saw that it was a new world record , so I thought that I , too , must have run fast .
27	I looked at the time .
28	I looked at the time .
29	I thought at the time : ‘ Is Sinn really conceivable with no Bedeutung at all ? ' ’
30	I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this .