Example sentences of "we [vb past] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 2 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 3 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 4 | As we reported at the time : |
| 5 | According to the laws we believed at the time , a hot body ought to give off electromagnetic waves ( such as radio waves , visible light , or X rays ) equally at all frequencies . |
| 6 | After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later . |
| 7 | Well we laughed at the time did n't we . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Er and it was much easier to be living on the premises , that 's what we felt at the time . |
| 10 | That 's why we came out with it 'cause it reflected what we liked at the time . ’ |
| 11 | Well I do n't know it 's just what we liked at the time you know , we liked anything that was considered a bit way out then , you know |
| 12 | It 's usually er er males that go to wars rather than females , and you can waste them on a vast scale like we did at the time of the first world war and , and find virtually no effect on your population . |
| 13 | Erm the effect was that that er on on on on the assessment we did at the time , that it would n't have affected flows on the A sixty one in the centre of Harrogate . |
| 14 | As we wrote at the time : |
| 15 | That 's been er er a matter which has been erm discussed er at some length by Stragg as has the topic of er house building and the the problems of er capacity for er new house instruction and other development within the , the Council but a number of erm matters er not least of which has been er the departure of two key members of staff during the period er there has er I 'm afraid been a degree of slippage and the original programme that we have put to you and which you agreed which we said at the time was ambitious er is already er showing signs of stress and it looks now I 'm afraid that it will not be er in the early part of the summer that the structure plan in draft form will be available and ready to be approved for consultation purposes , but towards the end of the summer and er er into the early autumn . |
| 16 | ‘ As we said at the time of this tour 's selection , David Gower 's Test career is not necessarily finished . |
| 17 | Cllr Peter Corcoran , Labour spokesman for land and development , said : ‘ The offer we accepted at the time was , in our view , the best scheme . ’ |
| 18 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 19 | We immediately notified the Department of Trade that Mohamed Fayed 's representations were incorrect , and gave what information we had at the time , which was sufficient to alarm , or at least give pause for basic investigations . |
| 20 | ‘ I remember this dodgy little manager we had at the time sent out five copies , and I can remember the one he sent to Sounds . |
| 21 | In his novel The Human Age , D. B. Wyndham Lewis postulates the theory that after death , as we stand on that other shore , at the gate of eternity , we will each one assume the shape and form which we had at the time when we best realised our essential selves . |
| 22 | ‘ I remember this dodgy little manager we had at the time sent out five copies , and I can remember the one he sent to Sounds . |
| 23 | Sources say , as we suspected at the time , that any suggestion that Hewlett-Packard Co might be interested in licensing Next Computer Inc 's NextStep interface for the PA-RISC is a lot of executive hot air ( UX No 418 ) . |