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

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1 I was near at the time , with Tiffany , in Mansfield .
2 Well I was n't at the time .
3 I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that .
4 I was on at the time , I had my period .
5 ‘ The state I was in at the time I 'd have wanted to murder him myself .
6 ‘ I know because I was there at the time . ’
7 But er , I did n't believe in , well it was me dad 's pigs of course , but I was there at the time as well like , you know .
8 I was there at the time . ’
9 I was still at the time in a relationship with a man I had lived with for four years and was emotionally dependent on , in more ways than one given my immigrant status in this country .
10 I think the fact that I was abroad at the time may have had something to do with it — having left the country I 'd also left my conscience behind .
11 She was away at the time
12 It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus .
13 Rodrigo , who was elsewhere at the time , heard the news with dismay .
14 In the scenarios above , establishing who was where at the time of the alleged abuse makes the difference between conviction and no conviction .
15 The prime minister , Giulio Andreotti , who was away at the time , was welcomed home on Monday March 25th by headlines announcing a showdown with Mr Cossiga .
16 But I had it from Makepeace , who was here at the time .
17 The police raided the Crown in Dock'ead an' stopped the boxin' that was goin' on there , an' they nicked a lot o' street bookies who was there at the time .
18 Fortunately no one was aboard at the time .
19 I knew the pressure yer was under at the time , I 'm not stupid , yer know .
20 It was n't at the time , ’ she said , ‘ because I did n't know it was inexplicable .
21 and so you know looking back on it , was all rather funny but erm , it was n't at the time of course particularly for the children and erm mothers .
22 It was n't at the time because you had a real complex about it but
23 We held a referendum on Britain 's membership of the Community in order to extract the Labour party from the difficulty that it was in at the time .
24 In temperament , Coleman appears to have been somewhat mercurial , and he could be despondent , as he was understandably at the time of his wife 's illness .
25 No-one was inside at the time .
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