Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 2 | They were exotic , impoverished days for Nicholson and , above all , big experiences for the boy from Neptune who had by now left the protective custody of his sister/mother and was sharing an apartment with one of a group of friends who he met at the time and with whom he remained close when he became well known . |
| 3 | Pressed very hard by Lauda in the final laps — ‘ leading a race was a brand-new experience for me , ’ he admitted at the time — he simply clung to his lead by driving as hard as he could . |
| 4 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 5 | As he noted at the time , new houses intended for single families were subdivided into tenements on their first letting , for the very poor simply could not afford to pay their landlords a realistic return on their investment . |
| 6 | The film was seen by many critics as Lester 's least satisfactory during that period , but it was probably far better than he believed at the time , while embroiled in battles with Frank . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't want to be a part of this , ’ he declared at the time . |
| 8 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Louis van Tilburg , research curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam commented : ‘ On the basis of the photos we have been able to inspect we are confident that the six drawings do not fit within the oeuvre of Van Gogh and do not correspond in any way with the graphic style he developed at the time . |
| 9 | He thought at the time he was marrying the ‘ prefect woman ’ . |
| 10 | Why had n't he told me what he thought at the time ? |
| 11 | But I know what he saw at the time — three mere candle-flames and three mere shadows . |
| 12 | He begins with the mind as ‘ white paper ’ ( following Locke ) , describes ‘ external sensible objects ’ , then records — as , for example , in the ‘ sense of unknown modes of being ’ after the boat-stealing incident — what he felt at the time , and then adds a later ‘ reflection ’ or meditation upon the event from the point of view of the author writing in 1798–1805 . |
| 13 | Cowdrey recalled how he felt at the time . |
| 14 | But skipper Dave Watson revealed : ‘ Tony was disappointed at being dropped and he said what he felt at the time . |
| 15 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 16 | And the whole book is really about er the Versailles conference in a way , is n't it , and about why he behaved the way he did at the time . |
| 17 | Great praise has been given to Mr. Baker , the United States Secretary of State , for arranging that conference and so fulfilling the commitment that he gave at the time of the Gulf war , when he said that he and President Bush would do all that they could to bring the parties to the negotiating table . |
| 18 | There is no doubt that in The Family Reunion he was attempting that re-integration of religious and secular drama which he discussed at the time he was working on the play . |
| 19 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 20 | Michael 's idol was Buster Keaton , and he had at the time studied Keaton more than I had , and said that he had never used a double . |
| 21 | He said at the time , ‘ A dancer 's time is short . |
| 22 | ‘ The most disturbing feature of the underground repository is not simply that an accident might occur , ’ he said at the time , ‘ but that if it did , we might never know until its consequences reached the surface — maybe decades later . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I can see no reason why I should n't keep my job because I have not committed any offence under military law , ’ he said at the time . |
| 24 | ‘ The recession gave us a window of opportunity , ’ he said at the time . |
| 25 | ‘ It was n't the litigation we would lose that was the problem , ’ he said at the time . |
| 26 | ‘ We realised very early on that there was something very wrong with Helen , ’ he said at the time . |
| 27 | he said at the time that as soon as his international career was over that he could go back to Blackheath and see them right . |
| 28 | ‘ I usually grow it like a sheepdog to keep me warm in winter , ’ he said at the time . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't like the way they want to make the film , ’ he said at the time . |
| 30 | ‘ She 'll start off , ’ he said at the time , ‘ with an appealing look like this [ his eyes open wide and his jaw drops ] and you can see her thinking : ‘ No , I did that yesterday . |