Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thrilled to the core by his admission that she disturbed and aroused him , she was at the same time terrified . |
| 2 | What White and Bernard also omit to make clear is that , while the great majority of the ordinary members of the church may well have been largely indifferent to theological issues , many of them were at the same time both outraged and alarmed by a number of alien liturgical practices , which were a unique and highly visible feature of English Arminianism . |
| 3 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
| 4 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 5 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 6 | While JCI diversified its interests in South Africa , it was at the same time increasing its shareholding in Johnson Matthey in the UK . |
| 7 | But when I actually erm got into the social work side of it , and i saw what the needs there were , erm and it was at the particular time too when you know , lots of teachers were sort of being made redundant , or at at least the er the numbers in schools were n't so high . |
| 8 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 9 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 10 | He was at the same time very simple and very noble . |
| 11 | A staunch Methodist with an evangelical conviction that film exists to serve the Lord , he was at the same time the head of the family flour-milling business and imbued with a Yorkshire respect for ‘ brass ’ and profitability . |
| 12 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |