Example sentences of "a [noun] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hurt a bit at the time , but I got myself free and did n't think a lot about it just then . |
| 2 | Mr Anderson was married and had a mistress at the time of the alleged rape , the jury has been told . |
| 3 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 4 | To make this silver anniversary picture , you could either press the flowers used to celebrate the day itself or you could press a selection of flowers beforehand and give the finished picture as a present at the time of the anniversary . |
| 5 | And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it . |
| 6 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think Steven had a telly at the time , ’ confirms long-time Morrissey acquaintance Len Levenshulme , adding cryptically , ‘ Steven Morrissey ? |
| 8 | One most destructive mode by which vast numbers are destroyed is that of chasing the birds in a boat at the time they shed their primary quill-feathers , when being unable to fly they are soon rowed down and captured ; this practice , which is to be much regretted , is usually resorted to for the sake of the beautiful down with which the breasts are clothed , but not unfrequently is mere wantonness . |
| 9 | Drescher has not the pervasiveness of Wedgwood 's image of the kneeling slave , first designed for a medallion at the time of the 1788 petition campaign but afterwards widely translated to other formats . |
| 10 | Then one night I went out and I met this DJ from Taboo , which was a club at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ He was recommended to us and I think he did n't have a club at the time . |
| 12 | ‘ He was recommended to us and I think he did n't have a club at the time . |
| 13 | From 1966 to 1969 he was a fellow of Balliol College , Oxford , and had just been appointed to a readership at the time of his death . |
| 14 | If Brian and John were engaged in a get-away from the scene of a crime at the time of the accident , John could also raise the defence of ex turpi causa ( illegality ) to the action . |
| 15 | I had a Lambretta at the time . ’ |
| 16 | Charlie , who did n't have a girlfriend at the time , hit back : ‘ I am an actor and doing scenes like that is what I am paid to do . |
| 17 | She was a child at the time . |
| 18 | In this method , the attainment of a child at the time of the test is compared with his or her attainment at time of entry to the school . |
| 19 | This includes any local authority which is providing accommodation for a child at the time an application is made and anyone caring for the child when proceedings are commenced . |
| 20 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
| 21 | A snapshot of the Hitler years Sixty years after the Nazis came to power , David Jackson Young talks to a woman who was a child at the time of the Third Reich |
| 22 | For example , what , if any , knowledge is required on the part of a payer at the time of payment to entitle him to recovery at a later date ? |
| 23 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 24 | The Video Recordings Act 1984 was intended to outlaw the ‘ video nasties ’ which were causing such a panic at the time , by making it illegal to distribute films on video which have not received a certificate from the British Board of Film Classification . |
| 25 | They badly needed a hit at the time . |
| 26 | If a teacher at the time of appointment has agreed to play a part in the larger framework and in the long-term plan for a school , the head will after a time weigh up the capacity of the new colleague to add his or her contribution to the larger task . |
| 27 | Old Higging ( ‘ best Angel and Bride Cakes in the West Riding ’ ) worth only half of what had been expected — a failure at the time of his possible greatest triumph . |
| 28 | In a contract of sale , other than one to which subsection ( 3 ) below applies , there is an implied condition on the part of the seller that in the case of a sale he has a right to sell the goods , and in the case of an agreement to sell he will have such a right at the time when the property is to pass . |
| 29 | Janbicca The Superman , who won fourteen Challenge Certificates ( a record at the time ) and twice won Best of Breed at Crufts . |
| 30 | He took part in 72 Grands Prix , was on pole position 33 times and won 25 races — a record at the time . |