Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 2 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 3 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 4 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 5 | If you were separated at the time , you are still treated as a dependant . |
| 6 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 7 | The details of Julian 's life are not known , but it is highly unlikely that she was professed at the time of her visionary experience — if at all . |
| 8 | I sincerely hope that Mrs. X 's complaint was not treated in a dismissive way because , as she readily admitted , she was drunk at the time of the assault . |
| 9 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 10 | We were separated at the time — the woman in the photographs is Phoebe . |
| 11 | Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men . |
| 12 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 13 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 14 | As a Bank that looks after its customers ' financial welfare , we know just how important the benefits offered by this Plan could be to you as they are paid at a time when you would need real financial help . |
| 15 | As a Bank that looks after its customers ' financial welfare , we know just how important the benefits offered by this Plan could be to you as they are paid at a time when you need real financial help . |
| 16 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 17 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 18 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 19 | The idea that there is some correct and timeless view , against which historical controversies can be judged , can prove an insensitive guide to the issues as they were perceived at the time . |
| 20 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 21 | in Reid in response to counsel 's submission that a husband could only be guilty of kidnapping his wife if they were separated at the time . |
| 22 | They were described at the time as an attempt at ‘ counter-revolution ’ , and in subsequent years many thousands of Albanians have been arrested and punished . |
| 23 | They are satirical and often so horrific that they were suppressed at the time . |
| 24 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 25 | The murder , it is suspected , was intended to foment open conflict in Belfast between the Ulster Defence Association and the rival Ulster Volunteer Force as relations between them were strained at the time . |
| 26 | You need to ask not only whether the actual care is specifically designed for that individual , but also whether it is given at a time that is chosen to suit the person , and possibly family and friends who may be involved . |
| 27 | It is true that the writing-up of a thesis may be its author 's first , and most difficult , exercise in scientific communication , and it is written at a time when the author may be scientifically immature , and lacking the communication skills which will develop later . |
| 28 | Well forgive me , the , the reason for that is , it was explained at the time if one 's going to defend the decision of where you 're going to put your roads , then you 've got in reality look at all them options ridiculous some they will be , whether they dig tunnels under the Orwell or knocking down Wordsworth Road I mean it 's all got to be looked at . |
| 29 | He submitted that it was reached at a time when the essential principles of the law of negligence were established and properly represented the result of the application of those principles . |
| 30 | It was given at a time of full employment and full employment persisted into the post-war world . |