Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] at the time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 2 | Handloom weaving was an important cottage industry at the time and Charles was sent to Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire to learn the trade ; that was why Robert Burns referred to him as ‘ Wabster ( weaver ) Charlie ’ in the poem Epistle to James Tennant . |
| 3 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |
| 4 | And Mellor willingly accepted her lavish hospitality — even though he was Arts Minister at the time and she was a film producer . |
| 5 | I believe erm the rulers of Kuwait at the time were very erm wise to make such treaty with the British for the protection of their country and the British respected the Kuwait autonomy at the time and this joint erm respect for each other I believe which gave rise to Kuwait to be what it is today . |
| 6 | He was working at ICI Billingham at the time and it had become habit , from his days as a London businessman , to wear a flower . |
| 7 | She was heavily involved in the election campaign at the time and Dysart brought her down here for dinner . |
| 8 | Steve Douglas 's Fanzine ‘ Go for It ’ started this year , and from a piece of folded photocopied paper , it eventually went on to become a printed glossy skate mag covering much of the skate scene at the time and the next few years for which the Farnborough scene played a major part if not the main part . |
| 9 | Well I was a drama student at the time and I suppose erm |
| 10 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |
| 11 | He had been a successful prize fighter at the time and had the good sense to buy the Blue Boar from the proceeds of the noble art . |
| 12 | I can recall one memorable evening when we met in the Pathfinder Club just as soon as it had opened in the evening ; I was attached to the Air Ministry at the time and it was very soon after the war as we still wore uniform . |
| 13 | The locomotive was in working order at the time and negotiations proceeded which resulted in transportation to Swanage as described above . |
| 14 | He stayed in digs in a colliery village at the time and found it equally possible to integrate easily into the local community . |
| 15 | The wisdom of not proceeding simultaneously very much depends on the condition of the property market at the time and is inevitably going to be a gamble . |
| 16 | ‘ I was shooting a lot of travel features at the time and had done a few aerials just to try something new . |
| 17 | ( I was Deputy Chief Inspector at the time and privy to the discussions and proposals relating to the investigation . ) |
| 18 | Bang a drum and it answers back , so I was working on a street market at the time and I went and bought a drum and started to learn . |