Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 2 | I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time . |
| 3 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 4 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |
| 5 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 6 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 7 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 8 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 9 | Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks . |
| 10 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 11 | This can be done simply by a witness being asked in court , ‘ Is the defendant the man you saw driving at the time of the offence ? ’ |
| 12 | She had felt at the time that he was ‘ pretty borderline for special school ’ . |
| 13 | that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm |
| 14 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 15 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 16 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |
| 17 | Erm , yes , as you know I 'm a member of the Essex traffic group and we did state at the time there will be no looking into or no pulling down of any type of property or building , yeah , but it , erm the Council went ahead and looked at Wordsworth Road |
| 18 | A month later , during investigations made by 5 Corps after the repatriations were over ( see Chapter Eleven ) , statements were taken from a number of officers in the Durham Light Infantry and 46 Recce Regiment , describing what they had seen at the time . |
| 19 | It seemed to work at the time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The murderer thought about it , still finding it almost as amusing as it had seemed at the time ; the murderer 's sense of humour was childlike , adolescent at the best , but secretive . |
| 22 | Would he have flung the bitter allegations and repeated the damning indictment of her which he had made at the time of Simon 's death ? |
| 23 | Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled . |
| 24 | He had laughed at the time , but the way his stomach was behaving now , he began to fear they had not been jesting . |
| 25 | However , if the accused obtains property on credit but he can not pay when the instalments fall due , he has not acted deceitfully if he intended to pay at the time of obtaining the item . |
| 26 | ‘ We think the drain cover must have been removed by accident by a farm machine and no-one had realised at the time , ’ |
| 27 | He had skilfully evaded Margie 's questions , moving on to talk instead about Kurt Eklund , the financial genius he had hired after Greg 's death to help him avoid what had seemed at the time almost certain ruin . |
| 28 | Maybe , if she had been a little older or more sophisticated , she might have been able to cope with what had seemed at the time to be a never-ending series of disasters . |