Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] at [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |
2 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
3 | It was pure good luck that someone dropped out so I could come this weekend — at least , I thought so at the time . ’ |
4 | I said so at the time , did n't I , Kathleen ? ’ |
5 | I said so at the time , if you remember . |
6 | And then we added eight two , which asked the director to explore the long-term viability of the estate , now we made that , and I said so at the time , the answer to that could be either positive or negative . |
7 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
8 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
9 | It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories . |
10 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
11 | He could n't believe it went ahead at a time when the firm was in financial trouble . |
12 | He spoke enthusiastically at the time of co-opting the help of government , community groups and business — a troika that would transform downtrodden parts of the city into gleaming new shopping malls and day-care centres and rebuilt factories and office space . |
13 | But it appeared otherwise at the time . |
14 | He said once at the time of Suez with a charge of bitterness , " Those Egyptians are rats . " |
15 | He wrote just at the time when English was becoming an established literary language and with a felicity which later caused most of his translation — perhaps 75 per cent — to be retained in the King James Bible , the authorised version for 300 years . |