Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at this time " in BNC.

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1 I met at this time a number of adopted children , and realised that the problems we all faced were similar , whatever the child 's colour happened to be .
2 Indeed , a major theme which emerged at this time was the lack of attention given by employers to the age structure of their work-forces and the consequent lack of encouragement to older people to see themselves as potentially economically viable .
3 The nastiest little attack we endured at this time came from , of all papers , the Lancet .
4 By imperial unification they meant at this time a federal union of Britain and the white dominions , a scheme differing little in its essentials from other schemes of imperial union which had occupied the minds of the British political classes from time to time during the latter part of the nineteenth century .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common .
8 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 . "
9 He added at this time that the further information was that the occupants of the flat at we were frightened of I also .
10 Was genuine he added at this time that er the further information was that the occupants of the flat at were frightened of .
11 One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) .
12 The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published .
13 While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems :
14 But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time .
15 Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble .
16 But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano .
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