Example sentences of "but at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had meant it to be special , but at the time , it had been dreadful , and when they began to sing Happy Birthday , Jay had burst into tears and run out of the room . |
| 2 | But at the time he was glad to leave . |
| 3 | Lewis treasured this conversation in after years , but at the time he found it disconcerting and annoying . |
| 4 | He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt . |
| 5 | But at the time he had no one with the expertise to guide him , and was very easily influenced by the persuasive arguments of the last person he spoke to on any given subject . |
| 6 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 7 | There were none of this in the beginning , in the first two years , but at the time of ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ , a lot of drugs began to come in , a lot of alcohol came in with different individuals , which helped fuel things . |
| 8 | But at the time I took her , the bushes had grown across the path , and we got stuck , with her widow 's weeds entangled in branches and thorns until she could move no more . |
| 9 | But at the time , characteristically , it was suggested that the book must have been written by Jean-Paul Sartre , the companion whom de Beauvoir was famous for not being married to . |
| 10 | I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But at the time I do n't think Kylie or anybody else had any idea of the phenomenal success she would have . |
| 12 | But at the time , none of this truth was known . |
| 13 | By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz . |
| 14 | But at the time of the launch of Dada , Modigliani was not clear about the meaning of the new movement and no one else seemed to know . |
| 15 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 16 | We 're used to it now , of course , but at the time it seemed rather exciting . |
| 17 | It is a method that is nearly always used there days but at the time it was quite a new technique , certainly for a band like The Wedding Present . |
| 18 | This is a welcome and long overdue development but at the time of writing the detailed regulations bringing it into force have yet to be published . |
| 19 | Folklore Society ( London ) Founded in 1878 , the society has more than 50 major collections , but at the time of writing these have not been catalogued . |
| 20 | It is difficult to appreciate it now in the liberated 80's , but at the time the worst thing an unmarried girl could do was get pregnant , and the worst news a mother could hear from her daughter was , ‘ I 'm going to have a baby ! ’ |
| 21 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 22 | But at the time I had not realised what it was . |
| 23 | I did n't consider the possibility of turning back to the runway behind me , but at the time I thought that a very low-level circuit to the left would bring me round for a landing on an adjacent runway . |
| 24 | I dread to think who Uncle Joe had transferred his twisted ‘ affections ’ to , but at the time , I was just relieved to be free of his attentions . |
| 25 | This may be ; but at the time there was a case to be made for the new policy satisfying the demands both of expediency and humanity . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't see how anybody can pick up a guitar nowadays and not give some credit to Jimi Hendrix because , at the time — people do n't remember this — but at the time he came out , people were ready to give up the guitar and go onto other instruments . |
| 27 | But at the time I still saw him as all-powerful , especially sexually . |
| 28 | Of course they really were avoiding me , but at the time I thought it was true and it sounded great ! ’ |
| 29 | After James was born in 1983 she intended to return after maternity leave fairly quickly , but at the time Edelman 's was in the process of changing — two senior partners had died , and two others had gone into industry . |
| 30 | But at the time his name was unknown . |