Example sentences of "had at time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ . |
| 2 | His evidence was to help place Mrs Dyer on the scaffold , as was his wife Polly 's , who testified that her mother had at times visited her with various small children who seemed to disappear overnight . |
| 3 | And all that time , Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times , when she was alone and longing to ‘ break down ’ , to clutch her breast with a fierce answering force to keep the black horror from spurting forth . |
| 4 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |
| 5 | Up to then Graham , 33 , had been mainly in control and had at times outclassed the 27-year-old Grant . |
| 6 | It was rumoured that the relationship had at times been stormy . |
| 7 | Liz had never admired , and had at times expressed somewhat freely ( and in her own view wittily ) her lack of response to Henrietta 's frigid style and vapid conversation , but nevertheless felt herself , in Henrietta 's presence , rendered almost as dull as Henrietta , and moreover uneasily aware that in other houses , in other milieux , at a distance , in other circles , she had seen Henrietta sparkling , laughing , surrounded by life — vacuous life , feverish small talk , no doubt , but life — a life that froze in Liz as she contemplated her guest 's stiff blue taffeta gown ( this was surely a gown , not a dress , and , not even English , probably French ) , her exposed white bosom , her diamond necklace ( well , probably diamonds , why not ? ) , her high white forehead , her thin dark-red lips . |
| 8 | In the debate Gorbachev had at times unashamedly used his position as Supreme Soviet Chairman to bully and cajole deputies into accepting his arguments about the precariousness of his reform programme and the urgent need to " enhance the mechanism of executive authority , in order to ensure that laws work " . |
| 9 | During Yeltsin 's campaign for the presidency Gorbachev had at times quite blatantly attempted to thwart him . |
| 10 | To a large extent the areas nearest to the Mediterranean were the most civilized , but there were cities further north with important cultural traditions , including Lyons , Bordeaux and Autun , and there were other cities , including Trier and Paris , which had at times been the residences of emperors . |
| 11 | We have already seen that there were times when the High Anglican interest , supposedly the natural allies of strong monarchy , sought to challenge the powers of the Crown in order to protect the interests of the established Church ; we have also seen that Nonconformist and Whig politicians , who during the Exclusion Crisis became the champions of Parliamentarianism , had at times shown themselves prepared to defend the royal prerogative against Parliamentary limitation when it was being used to protect the interests of the Dissenters . |