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Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] at the time " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time .
2	But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person .
3	It was pure good luck that someone dropped out so I could come this weekend — at least , I thought so at the time . ’
4	I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern .
5	I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ?
6	At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage .
7	I said so at the time , did n't I , Kathleen ? ’
8	I said so at the time , if you remember .
9	And then we added eight two , which asked the director to explore the long-term viability of the estate , now we made that , and I said so at the time , the answer to that could be either positive or negative .
10	A disgraceful decision , as I pointed out at the time . ’
11	Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday .
12	it 's amazing , that there was nine people who worked there at the time of the war .
13	Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time .
14	We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep .
15	You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ .
16	We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system .
17	No one pointed out at the time that radio , like other media of mass communication , leaves the audience with the choice of looking elsewhere .
18	‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor .
19	‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully .
20	It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories .
21	It did not at the time occur to me that their behaviour together had anything to do with what went on between Jean-Claude and me .
22	He spoke enthusiastically at the time of co-opting the help of government , community groups and business — a troika that would transform downtrodden parts of the city into gleaming new shopping malls and day-care centres and rebuilt factories and office space .
23	But it appeared otherwise at the time .
24	Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest .
25	He said once at the time of Suez with a charge of bitterness , " Those Egyptians are rats . "
26	He wrote just at the time when English was becoming an established literary language and with a felicity which later caused most of his translation — perhaps 75 per cent — to be retained in the King James Bible , the authorised version for 300 years .