Example sentences of "said at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As someone said at the time , ‘ I could believe him guilty of grievous bodily harm , but not grievous bodily charm . ’ |
| 2 | Klaus Maurice , the secretary-general of the German quasi-governmental agency that negotiated the deal , said at the time : ‘ If we had pursued the lawsuit in Dallas , the legal fees would have greatly exceeded the amount we agreed to pay . ’ |
| 3 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 4 | ‘ These reports are a load of rubbish , ’ she said at the time . |
| 5 | Dannii said at the time : ‘ We do n't see a lot of her because our schedules clash really badly . |
| 6 | He said at the time , ‘ A dancer 's time is short . |
| 7 | They said at the time it was a crib , and La Sylphide is indeed markedly different from any other Bournonville ballet . |
| 8 | Whatever the newspapers said at the time , we knew where every penny of revenue was coming from and every penny of expenditure was going . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology , said at the time this would make it easier for firms to obtain money . |
| 11 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 12 | A friend said at the time : ‘ The break up was due to the pressures of a bad season . |
| 13 | ‘ I asked him why and he said because he could not talk or swallow , ’ she said at the time . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Damon said at the time : ‘ I do n't have any ambitions to follow my father into Grand Prix racing . |
| 16 | ‘ The recession gave us a window of opportunity , ’ he said at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ It was n't the litigation we would lose that was the problem , ’ he said at the time . |
| 18 | As Niki said at the time , his Number One position ( an unofficial title , though Prost had made it clear to me , as to others , that he considered his first season at McLaren to be very much a learning process ) was under threat , and that was not a situation Niki appreciated . |
| 19 | Hunt had the greatest respect for his capacity as a driver ; on the other hand , as Hunt said at the time , the difference between Niki 's Ferrari and the McLaren was really negligible . |
| 20 | Joseph Maloney , secretary of the local angling association , said at the time that earlier , less serious pollution caused by Mogul had killed all fish life in what had once been a good trout and salmon river . |
| 21 | Mr Christie , in an exclusive interview with TODAY , said at the time : ‘ When I saw Sue in prison , almost the first thing she said to me was that the sentence was wrong . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We realised very early on that there was something very wrong with Helen , ’ he said at the time . |
| 23 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 24 | SHE said at the time : ‘ I know this will not happen again because of the shame it has brought on his family . ’ |
| 25 | But , as Gordon said at the time , ‘ to maintain my challenge for a place on the national side and even to take part meaningfully in the national squad training , it is necessary to train and play club football at the very highest level ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | President of Alcatel Standard Electrica , Miguel Canalejo , said at the time , ‘ China is our leading export market . |
| 28 | She said at the time ‘ no-one has given the BBC a mandate to promote their causes . |
| 29 | I said at the time what I thought was right , and I stick all through to what I believe to be right . |
| 30 | People said at the time that the war had been fought for the children , for a better future , and the 1950s represent a watershed in the historical process by which children have come to be thought of as repositories of hope , and objects of desire . |