Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like .
2 I expect I woke up at the wrong time .
3 The election arrived just at the right time .
4 I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared .
5 But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days .
6 I called in at the wrong time .
7 She looked down at the diminutive Time Lord , her eyes full of quiet sympathy .
8 ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’
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