Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least .
2 I reckon it were about the time of the Great War .
3 did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all
4 In November 1952 Karajan made what was at the time a celebrated recording of Bach 's B minor Mass .
5 And I have stayed ever since because when I joined Roadwatch it was at a time when they were developing from just 15 information stations throughout the country — there are now almost 100 .
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