Example sentences of "[verb] at the time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action . |
| 2 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 3 | It is striking , in fact , how much the latter idea seemed at the time to dominate as a first priority . |
| 4 | The only evidence which seemed at the time to offer any reliable dating was that of the coins which were of sufficient interest to the nineteenth-century antiquarians for them to be recorded , although rarely in detail . |
| 5 | None of these methods seemed at the time to have any relevance to therapeutics , and the scientists who developed them would have found it very difficult to persuade the distributors of funds for medical research to support them , but without them the practical advances which came later would have been impossible . |
| 6 | The method of work has been to get going at the time dictated by the candidate 's first duty of the day and the time taken to get to him . |
| 7 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 8 | I remember at the time wondering why . |
| 9 | ‘ Werner Keitel was an Abwehr agent employed at the time to select deep cover agents . |
| 10 | The microbes known at the time did not pass through filters , so the nature of the material was obscure . |
| 11 | Well we laughed at the time did n't we . |
| 12 | In Hegarty v. O'Sullivan ( 1985 ) 135 N.L.J. 557 it was observed by this court that , as a matter of practice , the requirements of service of a copy of the court 's order upon the contemnor was seldom effected at the time provided in the order . |
| 13 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |
| 14 | At the time it was widely believed that Sugar would not be returning to operational flying , as the following press release issued at the time seemed to indicate : |
| 15 | Broadsheets issued at the time do not elaborate on the detail of the finish given to the coffin , but show a plain gable-lidded type with or without handles . |
| 16 | On the one hand there were those introduced by British or British trained educationists because they appeared at the time to represent the ‘ best ’ education ( though naturally criteria for judging quality varied widely ) . |
| 17 | The graph plots the slope of the rising phase of the evoked response ( population e.p.s.p. ) , recorded from the cell body region in response to constant test stimuli , for 1h before and 3h following a tetanus ( 250Hz , 200ms ) , delivered at the time indicated by the arrow . |
| 18 | But I did not think at the time to ask what they were , or their significance . |
| 19 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 20 | The ministers denied that de Klerk knew about the payments , arguing that prodecures at the time had not required him to know . |
| 21 | He did n't know what Lewis meant about someone looking after the house but no doubt he , Adam , had at the time concocted some tale to keep his father quiet , to keep him away even . |
| 22 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 23 | Good results were obtained by those who completed their courses and at least 74.3% had at the time progressed satisfactorily ( 460 students ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I remember this dodgy little manager we had at the time sent out five copies , and I can remember the one he sent to Sounds . |
| 25 | ‘ I remember this dodgy little manager we had at the time sent out five copies , and I can remember the one he sent to Sounds . |
| 26 | Michael 's idol was Buster Keaton , and he had at the time studied Keaton more than I had , and said that he had never used a double . |
| 27 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 28 | The social worker I had at the time kept coming to see me in Low Newton and saying , ‘ Do you not think it 's best if you get him adopted ? ’ |
| 29 | Pallister recalled : ‘ What some people in the game said at the time left a bad taste in my mouth . |
| 30 | I see that an article I wrote at the time entitled ‘ What should we say to Germany ? ’ reflected this point of view , though with less explicitness . |