Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at the time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal .
3 Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ?
4 I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in .
5 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 .
6 I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time .
7 As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’
8 Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time .
9 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 .
10 Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong .
11 The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority .
12 What interested me at the time was whether the ‘ naturally ’ weak non-metallic crystals could be made strong too .
13 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 .
14 I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later .
15 They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time .
16 Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational .
17 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 ’ .
18 I insulted him at the time .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 " 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 .
22 I understood it at the time .
23 ‘ My grandfather had signed his own death warrant , though only my mother knew it at the time . ’
24 ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 A new Hollywood was being born , but no one realized it at the time .
28 I then did a series of films with Robert de Vicenzo , big money in those days , which convinced me at the time that Roberto would win the 1967 Open .
29 Did you at the time see the celebration of sexuality — even if it is a boy masturbating over an advertisement in a newspaper — as a kick in the eye of oppressive forces in the church ?
30 Did , did you at the time or in the thirties did you have any involvement with the Unemployment Claims Union or anything like that ?
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