Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 2 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 5 | If the Thamesdown one did n't , er , the officers for their own reasons have separated out this particular er , activity , erm , and I felt at the time that it was unreasonable to give a hundred percent funding to er , most C A B's but not to one . |
| 6 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 7 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 8 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 9 | It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
| 10 | As I wrote at the time , though the error may appear small , any error is significant given the close tolerances of FI cars . |
| 11 | Quite honestly , as I wrote at the time , ‘ if my waters could have broken , they would have broken ’ . |
| 12 | As I wrote at the time , I was not surprised . |
| 13 | All along , as I reported at the time , Sarah had wanted to take her baby with her . |
| 14 | I agree that the effect of Spitting Image 's caricature on Steel 's relationship with Owen was such that , as I commented at the time of the collapse of the Alliance , it was the only television programme that could claim to have brought down not just one but two political parties simultaneously . |
| 15 | I write now as I found at the time . |