Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at the time [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
2 | ‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said . |
3 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
4 | 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 |
5 | 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 . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
8 | I said at the time what I thought was right , and I stick all through to what I believe to be right . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 |
12 | They said at the time it was a crib , and La Sylphide is indeed markedly different from any other Bournonville ballet . |
13 | He thought at the time he was marrying the ‘ prefect woman ’ . |
14 | 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 . |