Example sentences of "think at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 2 | It was thought at the time that the talks would result in some extension of the deadline . |
| 3 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 4 | However , the system of floating exchange rates was thought at the time to be a temporary feature of the international monetary system : it was hoped that a new framework would be found for a return to some kind of adjustable peg in which the burden of adjustment was clearly defined , both for deficit and surplus countries , and in which reserve assets were not based primarily on one currency . |
| 5 | If that is what it turned out to be , it is certainly not what those most concerned to secure or prevent the passage of the Bill thought at the time . |
| 6 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 7 | Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks . |
| 8 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 9 | The argument , however , forced the English to justify their national identity , and the arguments employed give some idea of how men thought at the time . |
| 10 | Faulty concrete containers , thought at the time to be the source of pollution , were removed in 1973 and the site was declared decontaminated in 1979 . |
| 11 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 12 | I thought at the time : ‘ Is Sinn really conceivable with no Bedeutung at all ? ' ’ |
| 13 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
| 14 | The bar was like a cruise ship passing through the tropics without , I thought at the time , quite the same sexual charge . |
| 15 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought at the time that leaving John Mayall 's Bluesbreakers was a bit speculative , even though Peter , Mick ( Fleetwood ) and myself had already cut a couple of tracks within the Bluesbreakers band format , one of which was called Fleetwood Mac . |
| 17 | I thought at the time , this simply could n't happen in England . |
| 18 | He thought at the time he was marrying the ‘ prefect woman ’ . |
| 19 | Certainly I thought at the time that Hunt would end up sponsored by Marlboro and driving a McLaren . |
| 20 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 21 | He came in coldness , as she thought at the time , and left in coldness , to go to his grave . |
| 22 | Why had n't he told me what he thought at the time ? |
| 23 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 24 | I must say I thought at the time that it was a pretty rough night to choose for a sentimental journey … |
| 25 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's what I thought at the time , anyway , ’ said William , ‘ but I think now it must have been Barry Moxton . |
| 27 | She thought at the time : This is a vision . |
| 28 | I thought at the time that her absent luncheon companion must have been a boorish character , and even the greatest friends of Randolph Churchill would find difficulty in defending him from this charge . |
| 29 | A defendant may state that he honestly thought at the time that the girl was above 16 and that he never thought to enquire , or that the girl was dressed up and wearing make-up . |
| 30 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |