Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw , and I have had in actual fact , recourse to actually use that service over there , and it 's rather interesting if one can t to say that er in the particular village which I er represent , they actually came up , when I asked a certain question , they gave me a , a , far more than what I actually asked for at the time , but found out who the first village constable was , and I think myself that er , that service over there , it deserves every praise it gets heaped on it . |
| 2 | All I could think about at the time was keeping this lady happy . |
| 3 | There could be no answer to that , none that I could think of at the time . |
| 4 | No they do n't , but it was the only accent I could think of at the time . |
| 5 | but people who can afford to pay for it will be , will be made to at the time |
| 6 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 7 | She wondered what ‘ period ’ he had been enraptured with at the time he 'd been here . |
| 8 | The regiment I served with at the time was normally based at Osnabruck in Germany . |
| 9 | There was no attempt to come to terms with the central issue of wage determination : an issue commented upon at the time but one whose importance was to become far clearer in hindsight to politicians and economists alike [ Meade , 1982 ] . |
| 10 | These are defined in section 61 as ‘ goods identified and agreed upon at the time a contract of sale is made . ’ |
| 11 | ( a ) The meaning of description If goods sold by description are defined in terms of being identified or earmarked , then in the case of a contract for the sale of specific goods , non-correspondence with description ought logically to be impossible since s61(1) of SGA 1979 defines " specific goods " as including those identified and agreed upon at the time of the contract of sale . |
| 12 | In medieval times an effigy of the saint was met and escorted into the town by crowds of people , but this was frowned upon at the time of the Reformation and the effigy was replaced by a man dressed in white robes . |
| 13 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 14 | Against this learned account , I have to weigh what it felt like at the time , and the message of the history that was delivered up to me in small doses : that not being hungry and having a bed to sleep in at night , we had a good childhood , were better than other people , were lucky little girls . |
| 15 | Mrs Whitehouse 's attitude to homosexuals and homosexuality , though , is somewhat more complex than was perhaps allowed for at the time . |
| 16 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |
| 17 | Depends how many people you 're erm chef 's actually cooked for at the time . |
| 18 | It sought to reinvigorate the Church and enhance its spiritual life by bringing back into its service much of the ritual and many of the vestments , ornaments , etc. , that had been dispensed with at the time of the Reformation , BH 12 . |
| 19 | One day Leonie 's employer had got wind of what was going on , sacked Leonie and placed a telephone call to Victor Nicholson , the ignorant , ill-tempered manufacturer Hugo was contracted to at the time . |
| 20 | WILL SEES the dance music that the Shamen produce as being what they were always working towards ‘ although we did n't know what we were working towards at the time ’ , and agrees with Timothy Learny 's assertion that music and dance can be more powerful agents of changing consciousness than chemicals . |
| 21 | WILL SEES the dance music that the Shamen produce as being what they were always working towards ‘ although we did n't know what we were working towards at the time ’ , and agrees with Timothy Learny 's assertion that music and dance can be more powerful agents of changing consciousness than chemicals . |
| 22 | As we have noted , many countries had no press to speak of at the time of independence , and in those that did the press has undergone a considerable amount of change . |