Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 2 | But I must have nodded off at the time . |
| 3 | IT MIGHT not have seemed so at the time , but Troy Coker 's sending-off for punching against Bath proved to be a blessing in disguise for the quarrelsome Queenslander . |
| 4 | Mr Cullen asked if she could not have run away at the time . |
| 5 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 6 | She had thought so at the time . |
| 7 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 8 | The boulders which God had flung about at the time of the creation had , to Lydia 's eyes , a patriarchal air , and the pebbles which littered the stream seemed like little children confidently at rest in this fatherly presence . |
| 9 | ‘ If they had investigated thoroughly at the time they might not only have been able to identify other elements of the fraud but also help secure some of the lost assets . ’ |
| 10 | The tailings lake now covered an area of 160 acres , of which only one acre had dried out at the time . |