Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’
2 But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression .
3 I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together .
4 I resigned at the same time as they asked for my resignation .
5 I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things .
6 Well if I left at the same time as you he mi he might feel obliged to offer me a lift but if he did
7 You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’
8 She came at the same time ; then , as he lay there , quivering in his spent heat , she rolled off him and on to her knees .
9 She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc .
10 Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves .
11 Tom Russell , she learned at the same time , drank his black as well .
12 But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals .
13 We are nibbling , we 're constantly nibbling , we nibbled at the last time , and Councillor on our behalf has nibbled at it as well , erm , a report , erm
14 Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining .
15 ‘ Oh no ! ’ they exclaimed at the same time .
16 In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience .
17 All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time .
18 They arrived at the same time ! ’
19 Now the , the pensions when they raised at the same time , because we only pension raised every year , and we 're up there at that particular time at the Lothian region , a full council meeting .
20 Through the Declaration of Ilo , the two presidents committed Bolivia and Peru to implement the terms of the Gran Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz bilateral framework agreement , which they signed at the same time , for economic co-operation between the two countries .
21 There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ?
22 They spoke at the same time .
23 It came at the right time .
24 ‘ Do n't you think it 's surprising that she could n't recall delivering twins for Lilian , when it happened at the same time as Donna , almost ?
25 In portraiture he obtained at the same time a good likeness , much appreciated by the sitters and their families , and , in these works and in his more fanciful subjects , he engendered feelings of respect and admiration .
26 It began at the same time for both of us , did n't it ?
27 As agriculture had so near a connection with horticulture therefore he kept at the same time an observant eye on everything which occurred in rural economy , particularly the cultivation of ploughed lands .
28 Since he continued at the same time to deny any intention to stand , the letter seemed designed to test the ground while adding to the ferment in the parliamentary party — especially among those MPs sitting in vulnerable , marginal seats .
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