Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at the time [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember thinking at the time that someone had got their priorities wrong . |
| 2 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 3 | I also remember thinking at the time that dressing like a white man and taking a white man 's name was n't ever going to hide the Apache in him . |
| 4 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
| 5 | It was true that there were usually two of them together and he remembered thinking at the time that the other one was probably in a shop begging . |
| 6 | They stayed in the bedroom for half an hour or so , talking , looking at the things , talking : and Clara remembered thinking at the time that it was just such a honeysuckle-filtered , sunny conversational afternoon that would in years to come , whatever those years might bring , cause her the most sad and exquisite nostalgia . |
| 7 | She had felt at the time that he was ‘ pretty borderline for special school ’ . |
| 8 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 9 | They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say . |