Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 2 | This was part of Fender 's problem , of course , and the 30″ scale length strings were so unusual at the time as to cause major headaches in manufacture . |
| 3 | A marriage contracted by a person so insane at the time as not to appreciate the nature of the obligations of the married state may be set aside at the suit of either party . |
| 4 | When you when you come up here and do the driving you find that erm because people are are just not available at the time and erm y I 'm here just for a and Stan only here for a a limited period , and er you 're sort of trying they 're downstairs they 're trying to get people off the trucks when they come in or whatever the case may be to go out and do an assessment run , and it 's not always possible . |
| 5 | I was painfully thin at the time and he commented , ‘ We could almost touch your shoulder-blades as you dashed past with plates of chips . ’ |
| 6 | Some of the officers concerned were also unsure at the time that such courses had been sufficiently thought through . |
| 7 | Only I was really upset at the time and when I think of them drilling into my head and peeling back my skull and — ’ |
| 8 | you know , if they want the first day , then there gon na have to do another lot so what 's the point of sort of yourself out with fucking , I was n't really sure at the time that I wanted to go to so , you know , I , I said no I needed this job , but probably a bad I 've been offered a couple of month one 's as well , one month and two month 's , but I mean the trouble is |
| 9 | I was really worried at the time cos Mandy , Mandy was very worried , was n't she ? |
| 10 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 11 | ‘ It was quite clear at the time that it was just being borrowed . |
| 12 | I was quite sure at the time that I would n't want any more children . |
| 13 | It happened because I was pretty vulnerable at the time and when I came across this lady who I felt sorry for I imagined that I would be able to support her and make her happy . |
| 14 | Because the person being regressed may have to face something which was either traumatic at the time or which seemed trivial but has had a long-lasting subconscious effect , the whole subject needs careful and skilful handling . |
| 15 | As he put it : " We were rather cross at the time that all the torches back on the shore spoilt our chances of photographing the moon . " |
| 16 | Angie was very loud at the time and being really crazy , so we all got on famously . |
| 17 | It was very controversial at the time and it 's remained so ever since , and indeed in both Britain and America there are political movements right now to change minimum wage laws in , in ways that I think Florence Kelly would deeply have disapproved of . |
| 18 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 19 | I mean I did go to Denman , but I was n't very well at the time and I did n't get round the house so I would like to go myself . |
| 20 | His solicitor David Smark said : ‘ He was very frightened at the time because he was almost trapped inside the building . |