Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [vb pp] at [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head .
2 It must have looked at one time as though I 'd follow the family tradition and end up permanently on a farm .
3 ... But no , for he had said her heart was badly damaged , death might have come at any time .
4 I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions .
5 ‘ It appears it could have happened at any time , even running for a bus , ’ said headmaster Harrison Huddart , at Hewart Grange School , Gateshead , Tyne and Wear .
6 The horse 's trainer Robin Dickin said : ‘ It could have happened at any time , on the racecourse or at home .
7 ‘ The doctor said it could have happened at any time .
8 The frosted glass panel with my name on it had been cracked , but that could have happened at any time .
9 I have explained everything to her , told her it could have happened at any time .
10 My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years .
11 They could have left at any time .
12 He regretted that his proposal for a peace conference a year ago had not been acted upon , as he was confident the Soviet Union would have participated at that time with beneficial effects for the whole world .
13 I would have sworn at that time that I loved her as much as she did me , more even , but subsequent events proved me wrong .
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