Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [noun sg] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore wrote to express the hope that I had not appeared to expect him to intervene ; that I did not necessarily disagree with what he said ; and that my underlying feeling was that the Baldwin government , though apparently trying to get rid of a bad king , might damage the monarchy at a time when a great international crisis seemed to be upon us . |
| 2 | exercise some option to , to switch it over and I did n't need the cash at the time |
| 3 | Only a single user can access the computer at a time , and he has to write , debug , and run his programs in the most basic computer-oriented form . |
| 4 | Although I could n't tell the difference at the time , I was in fact wrong yesterday and right today , and this is sufficient to ground a difference in the outside observer 's description of me as knowing today but not knowing yesterday . |
| 5 | I could n't stand the bloke at the time . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know how he is supposed to have made it from Carluke to the bar in Motherwell if he did kill the girl at the time it was said he did . |