Example sentences of "at [art] time and [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Veal was Chief Inspector of Accidents at the time and led the UK delegation while I was its only other member as alternate delegate . |
| 2 | He had been a successful prize fighter at the time and had the good sense to buy the Blue Boar from the proceeds of the noble art . |
| 3 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |
| 4 | Because Pliny the Elder had been so widely-esteemed , the historian Tacitus was anxious to find out more about the circumstances of his death , and about the eruption in general , so he asked Pliny 's nephew , who was seventeen at the time and survived the eruption , to provide him with details of what had happened . |
| 5 | The best way to learn these modes is to take them one at a time and examine the construction of each one . |
| 6 | The Head of Department then went through the objectives one at a time and satisfied the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and the Director of Studies that , with different emphases , the objectives were all subsumed in the 3 criteria for the assessment of pupils ' work . |
| 7 | I just sat there , got them all out one at a time and did the whole damn lot ! |