Example sentences of "[pers pn] think at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought at the time : ‘ Is Sinn really conceivable with no Bedeutung at all ? ' ’ |
| 2 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
| 3 | The bar was like a cruise ship passing through the tropics without , I thought at the time , quite the same sexual charge . |
| 4 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought at the time that leaving John Mayall 's Bluesbreakers was a bit speculative , even though Peter , Mick ( Fleetwood ) and myself had already cut a couple of tracks within the Bluesbreakers band format , one of which was called Fleetwood Mac . |
| 6 | I thought at the time , this simply could n't happen in England . |
| 7 | Certainly I thought at the time that Hunt would end up sponsored by Marlboro and driving a McLaren . |
| 8 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 9 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 10 | I must say I thought at the time that it was a pretty rough night to choose for a sentimental journey … |
| 11 | ‘ That 's what I thought at the time , anyway , ’ said William , ‘ but I think now it must have been Barry Moxton . |
| 12 | I thought at the time that her absent luncheon companion must have been a boorish character , and even the greatest friends of Randolph Churchill would find difficulty in defending him from this charge . |
| 13 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |
| 14 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 15 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 16 | A careful , precise man , I thought at the time , one who looked after his health . |
| 17 | She was a real beauty , or so I thought at the time . |
| 18 | I thought at the time ‘ What a waste . |
| 19 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 20 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 21 | I thought at the time sh er she was leaving it pretty late . |
| 22 | I think at the time the RAF had more volunteers than it could cope with and much weeding out was done , but in his case he blotted his copybook good and proper by doing a bit of unauthorised low flying over a south Devonshire town , frightening all the old ladies . |
| 23 | I think he just figured he would n't do it — he 's in this big rock band and would n't think of doing it , although I think at the time Phil would have ! |
| 24 | Again we got into time constraints , there was one or two things obviously that were n't filled in , but I think that 's only been nitpicking I think at the time . |
| 25 | I think at the time of the er , of the A G M , I said we were pleased by the prospects and in the current statement I say the outlook continues promising , but I do n't think at any point we 've made more of a forecast than that . |
| 26 | He came in coldness , as she thought at the time , and left in coldness , to go to his grave . |
| 27 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 28 | She thought at the time : This is a vision . |
| 29 | ‘ Leaving aside what you thought at the time , and looking back , could he have driven the car to Exeter after disposing of his wife ? ’ |
| 30 | Buster bent over a table , on trestles ( airman 's six-foot , for the use of ) , and received his punishment from a great monster as we thought at the time , a flight sergeant RAF policeman with a cane . |