Example sentences of "[pers pn] was at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 3 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 4 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 5 | It was everyone 's dream to mix their album in their front room and that 's the kind of studio it was at the time . |
| 6 | It was at the time when The Jesus And Mary Chain were just beginning to bumble along . |
| 7 | It was at the time of the doodle-bugs , the flying bombs , and air raid warnings were frequent . |
| 8 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 9 | Faith coming before and bringing about healing is as real to many Christians today as it was at the time of the Gospel . |
| 10 | ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . ) |
| 11 | did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all |
| 12 | We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 13 | Teacher education is a smaller scale enterprise than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 14 | I can remember when the er Going down to the harbour for salt and we were getting from the manufacturer , it was at the time , getting cod liver oil , you know , ready prepared for us which was a quite a saving . |
| 15 | It was at the time of the Bulganin-Khruschev circus and my leave was very short — not long enough to clear up my mother 's affairs as I wished to do . |
| 16 | Although this was later found to be correct , there was no way of telling how true it was at the time . |
| 17 | Yet to mere man , Venice stands today on a group of islands at the head of the Adriatic very much as it was at the time of the great Doges . |
| 18 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |
| 19 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 20 | The list shows how easy it was at the time ( 1860 ) to raise money for a line intended to run from Craven Arms to Montgomery , and what a number of persons , sufficiently well-disposed to the district to advance such large sums would be deprived of all chance of recouping themselves by completing the line , if the policy of closing it was adopted . |
| 21 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in many parts of the Yorkshire and Humberside region unemployment is significantly lower than it was at the time of the previous election , and that what the regional CBI fears above all else is the havoc that would be caused by a Labour Government , with their commitment to a statutory minimum wage , which would wipe out so many jobs , and to the European Community social chapter , which would make British industry uncompetitive in world terms ? |
| 22 | I now had a settled crew and witnessed the steady improvement in the PFF methods , but very much trial and error as it was at the time , although in keeping with the Harris momentum . |
| 23 | Went through Section Head of various departments and became the A M S there or M P S as it was at the time . |
| 24 | Things have changed enormously , but it 's , so it took sometime for them to get to know that they , the French were at war with , the Prussians and the Austrians , and do n't forget that Strasbourg is only on the other side of the Rhine from Germany or whatever part of Germany er , it was at the time . |
| 25 | The rebuilt barn had been laid out just as it was at the time of the fire in January last year . |
| 26 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 27 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 28 | In 1456–8 he was certainly in England , for he made over all his property to others by letters patent ; he was at the time verger to the collegiate chapel of St Stephen , Westminster . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't know who he was at the time , ’ Joe admits . |