Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 2 | St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time . |
| 3 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
| 4 | Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ? |
| 5 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
| 6 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 7 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 8 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 9 | We never noticed it during the time it took for me to qualify and start work as an intern at St Andrew 's in Marylebone . |
| 10 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 11 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
| 12 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 13 | The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority . |
| 14 | What interested me at the time was whether the ‘ naturally ’ weak non-metallic crystals could be made strong too . |
| 15 | I have never quite understood why " Chesh " as we called him at the time , was the only person I selected for training with the Force that my Master vetoed ; my Master also vetoed the selection of Leonard to command No 35 Squadron in the early days of the Pathfinder Force and I was never able to establish why . |
| 16 | A girl from one of the other teams — for all of us had assembled by now — asked him for the time and briefly discussed the weather with him and when , after about 15 minutes , he struck off purposefully around a nearby playing field , he had a tail of 14 people — the entire membership of all four spy teams — determined not to lose their quarry . |
| 17 | I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later . |
| 18 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
| 19 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 20 | Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational . |
| 21 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 22 | I insulted him at the time . |
| 23 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 24 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 25 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
| 26 | I understood it at the time . |
| 27 | ‘ My grandfather had signed his own death warrant , though only my mother knew it at the time . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 29 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 30 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |