Example sentences of "at the time [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 Deceased 's father , with Thomas Hawkswell [ sic ] set out as a search party , and eventually traced the ‘ footings ’ of the missing man … to the old Groove house , and found the lifeless body of young Brown lying just outside the dilapidated building , with his faithful dog watching over the remains of its departed master … the deceased had been married about nine months but he , however , resided with his father at Blackton , while his wife lived with her mother at Bowes , pending their securing a farm and home to themselves , a consummation well within sight at the time of this untoward happening — this mysterious interposition , which surely intimates eternity to man … ‘
2 It is worth remembering that the UK at the time of this publication was already adrift of the best practice elsewhere , with fatality rates double those of the Netherlands for pedestrians and more than triple those of Sweden for children .
3 He was 38 years old at the time of this raid .
4 Making an allowance for this , and taking into account the proportion of members ' savings actually loaned out , would put the effective cost of credit union loans at the time of this comparison at around 17.5 per cent : still as cheap as the very cheapest commercial alternative then , and much cheaper than most .
5 At the time of this translation we were not sufficiently in touch with Burmese poets and authors or with Buddhist monks , who together might have helped us to be more truly indigenous .
6 Trevor was working in the States at the time of this interview .
7 No similar conditions existed in Britain at the time of this study .
8 Whites , at the time of this research ( 1987 ) .
9 Let it be noted that J , head of was actually in the room at the time of this meeting .
10 At the time of this story , I was still living at my friend Sherlock Holmes 's flat in Baker Street in London .
11 At the time of this study , which ceased in the early 1980s , average interest payments for the 73 countries were $27.50 per capita .
12 At the time of this repossession by X the car clearly belonged to Z. This was because X had sold it to Y who had sold it to Z. It was held , however , that Y , in allowing X to repossess the car , was within the section .
13 At the time of this quote the basic rate of income tax was 25 per cent so that we can calculate the gross dividend payment .
14 At the time of this review , the Senior Management Team consisted of the Head , the three Deputy Heads ( First Deputy Head ( Staff ) , Second Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) , Third Deputy Head ( Administration ) , and a Senior Teacher , the Director of Studies .
15 At the time of this visit ( 1986 ) , BLDSC were seeking the support of the Universities , via the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals ( CVCP ) , for a proposal to dispense with their Copyright Declaration Form .
16 ‘ You 've made sure that I am seen talking to you at the time of this man 's arrest in a public place .
17 At the time of this Report , knitters ' order intake volumes for Autumn 1993 are down on the previous year , in part as retailers delay ordering and in part reflecting recessionary conditions in key export markets in Europe and Japan .
18 The 67 children who had reached maturity at the time of this study tended to have been diagnosed earlier in the decade than those still growing .
19 At the time of this incident I was patrol inspector at .
20 Yes sir , I 'm Michael Charles er police Superintendent in the at present stationed at er at the time of this incident I was the operations Superintendent at .
21 At the time of this incident the incident was carried out by a group of officers who were called the operational support unit .
22 ‘ As we said at the time of this tour 's selection , David Gower 's Test career is not necessarily finished .
23 They yeah we used to call in Tex and he , he could n't believe that there were old people living in Walsall at the time in this country the size of England , and people living in Walsall that had never seen the sea in their lives , and this guy coming from America could n't believe this .
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