Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
| 4 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 5 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |
| 6 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 7 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 8 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 9 | evening so erm she said by the time she 's gone all you know , all day she 's had enough so she 's not stopping now . |
| 10 | She longed for the time I 've just got two in my gardeners . |
| 11 | They were a wonderful group who impressed from the time they came in . |
| 12 | Well I do n't know it 's just what we liked at the time you know , we liked anything that was considered a bit way out then , you know |
| 13 | They said at the time it was a crib , and La Sylphide is indeed markedly different from any other Bournonville ballet . |
| 14 | And he did n't forget the man he had beaten , and to whom he acknowledged America owed a debt : ‘ I want all of you to join with me tonight in expressing our gratitude to President Bush for his lifetime of public service , for the effort he made from the time he was a young soldier in the second world war , to helping to bring about an end to the Cold War , to our victory in the Gulf War , to the grace with which he conceded the results of this election tonight in the finest American tradition . ’ |
| 15 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 16 | He thought at the time he was marrying the ‘ prefect woman ’ . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that in The Family Reunion he was attempting that re-integration of religious and secular drama which he discussed at the time he was working on the play . |
| 18 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |