Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at the time " in BNC.

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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 I mean at the time
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 On the back of the Topper , a comic I read at the time , was a serial of Robert Louis Stevenson 's Kidnapped , told almost entirely in pictures .
14 It was a paeon of praise for the comic I read at the time — a tuppenny coloured one !
15 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 .
16 And the , the price was thirty nine pounds and as far as I know at the time the , the pianos went down that terrace I do n't think anybody could play it properly .
17 I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it .
18 I remember at the time wondering why .
19 I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time .
20 I remember at the time that all the crews felt a great deal happier being so much nearer the rest of the Lancs and Halifaxes , and no longer were in great danger of our oppoes dropping bombs and incendiaries on us .
21 That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was
22 And I remember at the time , I was chasing you over a most ridiculous national press story that Emlyn did n't like the idea of you a pop singer appearing in one of his classics .
23 I may not have understood everything I heard at the time , but later it all slotted into place .
24 I coped at the time but now , five years on , I feel guilty and resentful about the whole affair .
25 The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough .
26 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 .
27 I honestly ca n't remember how I felt at the time — I think I was just shocked .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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