Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 2 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 3 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 4 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 5 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 6 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 7 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 8 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 9 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 10 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 11 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 12 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 13 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 14 | As he later admitted in an interview with CA Magazine , ‘ I said to someone at the time , I never again want to conduct a debate lasting three years without once being able to raise my voice ’ . |
| 15 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |