Example sentences of "at [adj] time [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it . |
2 | This was because at that time I could not find a Salome . |
3 | At that time I could only eat alone . |
4 | And then it would er at that time you would just have the tank workers and the quarry workers . |
5 | But if one issue is to be singled out as representing a point of potential conflict between partners at this time it will most likely concern the relationship between home and employment . |
6 | At some time he may also have sent an expedition against Normandy which was defeated , and his Helmet coin type , perhaps current from 1003 to 1009 , depicts him in armour ; according to the surviving verse on him by the Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Serpent 's Tongue , the army feared Æthel-red no less than God , and N.P. Brooks has shown that he increased the military burdens on his people by requiring more of his soldiers to wear helmets and byrnies . |
7 | But , she determined then , at some time she must most definitely find some space in which to tackle the issue with him . |
8 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
9 | At one time I could easily have become a fundamentalist advocate of natural childbirth ( Reaching for certainty NI 210 ) . |
10 | The same reasoning , I suspect , saw to it that at one time you could n't get olives , only peanut and crisps , in smart bars in Spain , because olives were what peasants ate . |
11 | I know things have altered recently , but certainly at one time you could n't speak to God yourself and confess your sins direct to Him . |
12 | The moral is clear : when gustiness is getting near to the limit for safe flying , assume that at any time it could suddenly increase . |