Example sentences of "do at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be done at the time . |
| 2 | The British Museum 's engraving of Derwentwater published by him in Manchester might have been done at the time of Yates ' map-making after West 's encouragement , but it is very poor . |
| 3 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
| 4 | Mum had been so kind and prepared lots of meals for us all so there was n't much in the kitchen to be done at the time . |
| 5 | There is then a carefully chosen extract from the writer 's work , followed by a bibliography , which not only includes references to critical responses done at the time of publication but modern reassessments as well . |
| 6 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 7 | My sights were wide-ranging " I 'd like to work for the Daily Mirror or the Telegraph , " I informed my friends , as I sank a pint in the way I 'd seen the big-boys do at the time of the by-election . |
| 8 | ‘ There was n't a thing he could do at the time , but he 's got his eye on them . ’ |
| 9 | That was the best , at least I understand that was the best the Secretary of State could do at the time . |
| 10 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ There was n't anything to do at the time . |
| 12 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 13 | It was a reasonable thing to do at the time as the fund was in surplus . |
| 14 | ‘ And what , might I ask , sir , was he doing at the time he was talking about the bell ? ’ |
| 15 | I think if you saw what David did afterwards , he was obviously attracted to the one-man show that Tony Newley was doing at the time like , ‘ Stop The World ’ and things like that , and the lyrics appealed to him . |
| 16 | WHY Do we drink coffee ? one answer is to keep us interested in what we are doing at the time — typing , say , or repairing a car . |
| 17 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 18 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |
| 19 | See if you can conjure up a picture of you being successful — what were the events , what were your thoughts and feelings , and what were you doing at the time ? |
| 20 | Q : What were you and your husband doing at the time ? |
| 21 | It was what the Americans would call a ‘ company town ’ , and is worth seeing as an example of what enlightened employers were doing at the time . |
| 22 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 23 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 24 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
| 25 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 26 | Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out . |
| 27 | Oh in fact you 're not even you could never have to go back to that same place but depends on where what you 're doing at the time that assignment comes up for reselling . |
| 28 | ‘ Part of his problem was that he was just doing what everybody else did at the time , and it killed him . |
| 29 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
| 30 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |