Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it . |
| 2 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 3 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |
| 8 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 9 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 10 | I said at the time what I thought was right , and I stick all through to what I believe to be right . |
| 11 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 12 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 13 | Well I do n't know it 's just what we liked at the time you know , we liked anything that was considered a bit way out then , you know |
| 14 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 15 | They said at the time it was a crib , and La Sylphide is indeed markedly different from any other Bournonville ballet . |
| 16 | ‘ And what , might I ask , sir , was he doing at the time he was talking about the bell ? ’ |
| 17 | He thought at the time he was marrying the ‘ prefect woman ’ . |
| 18 | There is no doubt that in The Family Reunion he was attempting that re-integration of religious and secular drama which he discussed at the time he was working on the play . |