Example sentences of "at the time that [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I did the lights for Hamlet at school , I never understood the play , thinking at the time that it was much ado about very little . |
| 2 | ‘ It was quite clear at the time that it was just being borrowed . |
| 3 | I must say I thought at the time that it was a pretty rough night to choose for a sentimental journey … |
| 4 | They stayed in the bedroom for half an hour or so , talking , looking at the things , talking : and Clara remembered thinking at the time that it was just such a honeysuckle-filtered , sunny conversational afternoon that would in years to come , whatever those years might bring , cause her the most sad and exquisite nostalgia . |
| 5 | Scott and James McCalman said at the time that it was a stone used for making charcoal after the following fashion . |
| 6 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
| 7 | Were you aware at the time that it was a small house ? |
| 8 | Such was the style of the Service at the time that it was known as " The Best Flying Club in the World " , but measured against today 's standards , utterly amateurish and grossly incompetent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I said at the time that it was rather important from the point of view of the economy that we should not have wage increases which we could not afford . |
| 11 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 12 | At the time that I was contending for the ordination of women to the priesthood of the Anglican Church , I made use of another argument , drawing out the implications of patristic thought . |
| 13 | I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies . |
| 14 | I suppose it was good at the time that I was n't kissing Andrew , otherwise I would have had a mouthful of sick . |
| 15 | Mr Mazowiecki also said pointedly at the time that he was not prepared to replace one philosophically biased government ( a communist one ) with another philosophically biased government ( an avowedly Catholic one ) . |
| 16 | The force of his sincerity convinced many Western observers at the time that he was simply mad , deluded by his own propaganda . |
| 17 | She had felt at the time that he was ‘ pretty borderline for special school ’ . |
| 18 | I assumed at the time that he was crying for the garden and what he 'd done to it . |
| 19 | In Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 the plaintiff sued in respect of defects with which she was born which she alleged were attributable to a motor accident that rendered her mother a quadriplegic at the time that she was pregnant with the plaintiff . |
| 20 | Kathleen Kenyon 's notable effort was not wholly successful for two reasons : firstly , it was not appreciated at the time that there was only one major construction phase and not two ; secondly , the knowledge of pottery dating was then inadequate . |
| 21 | It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun . |
| 22 | They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say . |
| 23 | It was known at the time that there was going to be opposition to them and it was an absolute recipe for debate after debate , council meeting after council meeting , committee meeting after committee meeting . |