Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] at the time " in BNC.
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1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
2 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
3 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
4 | Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ? |
5 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
6 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
7 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
8 | I insulted him at the time . |
9 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
10 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
11 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
12 | I understood it at the time . |
13 | I liked it at the time , yes . |
14 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
15 | I then did a series of films with Robert de Vicenzo , big money in those days , which convinced me at the time that Roberto would win the 1967 Open . |
16 | St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time . |
17 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
18 | She denied it at the time , but soon she realized that those were his inclinations . |
19 | A new Hollywood was being born , but no one realized it at the time . |
20 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
21 | I have never quite understood why " Chesh " as we called him at the time , was the only person I selected for training with the Force that my Master vetoed ; my Master also vetoed the selection of Leonard to command No 35 Squadron in the early days of the Pathfinder Force and I was never able to establish why . |
22 | The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority . |
23 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |
24 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
25 | It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun . |
26 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
27 | ‘ Because ‘ e 's my mate , and it annoyed me at the time to see ‘ im get ahead of me . ’ |
28 | What interested me at the time was whether the ‘ naturally ’ weak non-metallic crystals could be made strong too . |
29 | What struck me at the time about the " battle " between Bennett and Slessor was that Bennett acted as an agent for his C-in-C as well as in his , own personal interest . |