Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone was looking for reasons why he left us and no-one appreciated at the time that his health was suffering . |
| 2 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 5 | If the Thamesdown one did n't , er , the officers for their own reasons have separated out this particular er , activity , erm , and I felt at the time that it was unreasonable to give a hundred percent funding to er , most C A B's but not to one . |
| 6 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ken Wolstenholme was never really lost to football after he left the Beeb and he commentated for a time on ITV 's Tyne Tees station and recently worked for Tottenham 's Clubcall line . |
| 9 | Michael 's idol was Buster Keaton , and he had at the time studied Keaton more than I had , and said that he had never used a double . |
| 10 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |
| 11 | He was , and he remained for the time being , a figure of comic relief . |
| 12 | Still no acknowledgement was made and it grew near the time when Gigia would be setting out on her journey . |
| 13 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 14 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 15 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 16 | It was tough , but we got through the time somehow . |
| 17 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 18 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |