Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | By wrecking a motion at the time , rightly or wrongly placed and once again I see this afternoon we 've got a similar motion on the table . |
| 2 | I think Japan was taken by surprise — they did n't expect a tour at the time — but he just decided to do it . |
| 3 | But even this pales slightly in the face of Walton conducting , in the same series , the first-ever recorded version of Belshazzar 's Feast , featuring Dennis Noble as the incisive soloist , a wartime set that caused a sensation at the time . |
| 4 | He could n't have been unconscious for long , looking back , but it seemed an eternity at the time . |
| 5 | The head , which was being given a facelift at the time of December 's fire , has been graced with a new mop of blue hair . |
| 6 | Mrs Weaver , who was wearing a helmet at the time of the fall , was pronounced dead at the scene . |
| 7 | On I8 April 1983 the American Embassy in Beirut was car-bombed and collapsed like a pack of cards , sixty-three employees , including a team of senior CIA agents holding a meeting at the time were killed . |
| 8 | Det Con Steve Roberts added : ‘ It is unusual to say the least , the fact that one of these women was holding a baby at the time . ’ |
| 9 | Det Con Steve Roberts added : ‘ It is unusual to say the least , the fact that one of these women was holding a baby at the time . ’ |
| 10 | Richards insisted he was not pressurizing the umpire but doing a celebratory dance , which seemed odd since as the umpire had not raised a finger at the time he had nothing to celebrate . |
| 11 | I was expecting a baby at the time . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to wear an earring at the time . |
| 13 | They badly needed a hit at the time . |
| 14 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 15 | ‘ He was recommended to us and I think he did n't have a club at the time . |
| 16 | ‘ He was recommended to us and I think he did n't have a club at the time . |
| 17 | Charlie , who did n't have a girlfriend at the time , hit back : ‘ I am an actor and doing scenes like that is what I am paid to do . |
| 18 | They were having a mission at the time and the preacher told Mother that it would have done her far more good to go to chapel than knit a quilt . |
| 19 | I was having a War at the time — the Mussels against the Dead Flies I think it was — and while I was in the library poring over the book and trying to keep my eyes open , soaking up all those damn silly Imperial measurements , the wind would be blowing my fly armies over half the island and the sea would first sink the mussel shells in their high pools and then cover them with sand . |
| 20 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 21 | It may be argued that the effects of physical-care experiences , though obscured later on by subsequent events , do at least have an impact at the time , and that much of the variation in infant behaviour can be accounted for by differences in training practices . |
| 22 | It hurt a bit at the time , but I got myself free and did n't think a lot about it just then . |
| 23 | I do not say that people ’ have it taken out of them ’ for making a complaint at the time when that complaint is made , but there may be a problem the next time something happens . |
| 24 | Police have also tracked down one local man who gave a statement at the time of the disappearance . |
| 25 | Police have also tracked down one local man who gave a statement at the time of the disappearance . |
| 26 | Police have also tracked down a local man who gave a statement at the time . |
| 27 | In Hart v Sangster 37 TC 231 , £2M was added to an account which had a credit at the time of approximately £20,000 . |
| 28 | Mr Anderson was married and had a mistress at the time of the alleged rape , the jury has been told . |
| 29 | As far as can be gauged , Wadhurst had a population at the time of about 1000 . |
| 30 | I had a Lambretta at the time . ’ |