Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 2 | The chart needs to be filled in at the time the child eats as retrospective memory is unreliable . |
| 3 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 4 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 5 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
| 6 | The June poster campaign was described as a ‘ xuechao ’ , student movement , in one analysis carried out at the time , although there were no demonstrations . |
| 7 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 8 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 9 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 10 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 11 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |
| 12 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 13 | If you are having a mains garden lighting circuit installed , it makes sense to have power points suitable for power tools such as mowers and hedge trimmers put in at the time . |
| 14 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 15 | Within the Commonwealth , Mrs Thatcher 's hostility towards trade sanctions on South Africa had long weakened ties with the African and Asian states so fruitfully built up at the time of the settlement in Zimbabwe in 1979 . |
| 16 | Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time . |
| 17 | The company memory of the late launch of a profitable product will convey more merit than the prompt launch of a failure , whatever the arguments put up at the time . |
| 18 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 19 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 20 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 21 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 22 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 23 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 24 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 25 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 26 | There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know . |
| 27 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 28 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 29 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
| 30 | But I must have nodded off at the time . |