Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 2 | Her auntie was in , but I was to go at any time for the telephone … |
| 3 | All I was doing at this time , if I was n't at school , was watching TV , listening to music , reading or walking , with Dawn as my constant companion . |
| 4 | While we have more or less maintained our overall membership figure , and that in a deep recession , we have fallen far short of the targets set in March 1992 , which were felt at that time to be reasonable and achievable . |
| 5 | While we have more or less maintained our overall membership figure , and that in a deep recession , we have fallen far short of the targets set in March 1992 , which were felt at that time to be reasonable and achievable . |
| 6 | The various regional associations which were formed at various times in Eastern and Western Europe , in Africa , in the Middle East or in Latin America , rested either upon the predominance of one nation state over others in the region , or upon a limited agreement about a framework within which national economic interests could be more effectively pursued ; and they all showed themselves largely incapable of controlling the vigorous expression of such interests in periods of crisis . |
| 7 | No indeed , this is in fact er about the twelfth meeting in a series , the first meeting was in 1973 , where 75 scientists came together to deliberate about 50 genes which were known at that time . |
| 8 | The Second Book of his Concerti ( 1607 ) actually contains a monodic ‘ Missa Dominicalis ’ with continuo , though his textures are often contrapuntal and have no very close affinity , except in coloratura , with the secular monody which was developing at this time . |
| 9 | In mathematics he was clearly one year ahead , and was immediately awarded a Founder 's scholarship and two small exhibitions — and this at St John 's College which was noted at this time for its academic distinction . |
| 10 | It was also indicated to them that while on the grade they would perform a limited range of duties as defined in a list which was published at that time . |
| 11 | Linkage to nuclear industry databases identified four ( out of 54 ) case fathers and 10 ( out of 324 ) control fathers who were employed at some time before their child had cancer diagnosed ( relative risk 2.5 , p=0.25 ; table IV ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I have had a letter from Maureen in which she says Niazy has written to her , telling her she was involved at that time and while he is in prison , she will stay in prison . |
| 13 | So convinced was she that ‘ Love conquers all , that she was prepared at all times to forgo conventional ties if they interfered with his development . |
| 14 | I live in France now , and I 'm married to a Frenchman , but my introduction to drama was through an amateur dramatic society in Stanmore , where we were living at one time . |
| 15 | They were developed at that time as a useful product for the , for the menfolk . |
| 16 | They were withdrawn at that time but enacted in 1894 along with provisions ‘ to introduce local self-government into rural parishes ’ ( Redlich and Hirst 1958:216 ) . |
| 17 | It was chaired at one time by Peter Wright , author of Spycatcher . |
| 18 | It was accepted at this time that if you had talent you could sponge and exploit , as Colquhoun and MacBryde did when they abused Elizabeth Smart 's hospitality at Tilty Mill , a house belonging to Ruthven Todd and where they created havoc . |
| 19 | It was noted at that time that there were low level information technology utilisation in the departments , consequently the cost of implementation would be a major factor when considering the design of either system . |
| 20 | Despite later Communist acceptance of this policy it was rejected at this time by William Rust for the Party . |
| 21 | It was forbidden at that time to bring wildlife to school . |
| 22 | There is only one ‘ edition ’ of The Fairy Queen , which was issued first in 1692 — in May , when the show opened ( this is clear from Tonson 's advertisement in The London Gazette ) ; it was re-issued at some time in 1693 , with the modifications already described — a new title-page , a new Act 1 , and two new songs on single-leaf inserts later in the book . |
| 23 | It was thought at one time that a Mareva injunction was a remedy only available against foreign defendants , perhaps because the risk of assets being removed was usually greater and more obvious in such cases . |
| 24 | They would visit to see what it was doing at particular times , like haymaking . |
| 25 | He considers that the nineteenth century cases of Camplin , Flattery and Williams accomplished no more than to include within rape sexual intercourse with an unconscious woman or one deceived by a specific type of fraud and that the 1976 Act merely declares the law as it was established at that time . |
| 26 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 27 | Erm he was using at that time an R registered Ford Escort er , which was er , only insured third party , fire and theft . |
| 28 | Erm he was using at that time an R registered Ford Escort er which was er only insured third party fire and theft . |
| 29 | Talking of reruns Madam er deputy speaker , er I almost feel I 'm involved in a series of reruns with the er with the minister himself because er in a series of bills er committees in the eighties , standing committees on the building societies bill , on the banking bill , on the financial services er bill , as they all were , er he was speaking at that time er in favour of more effective regulation , backing the votes of this side er for kind , the kind of policies it 's introducing today . |
| 30 | Since the Earl of Holland was ‘ a man of greater dignity than knowledge in the Lawes of the Forest , he was assisted at various times by judges of the common law courts who advised him on points of law . |