Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] at [art] time " in BNC.

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1 If the goods had already perished at the time the contract was made , then section 6 is the appropriate section .
2 I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite .
3 He also noted how photographs could contain details the photographer had not observed at the time that the lens was focused and the exposure was made .
4 He had not known at the time that they were officers of the law .
5 And there was his behaviour since their father 's death : odd little things she had scarcely noticed at the time but now they began to acquire significance in her mind .
6 Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality .
7 ‘ I had n't realised at the time how tough it was , ’ he admits .
8 Yet , given time , he could roll back any given scene like a film and look at it again , stopping and starting the images at will , examining areas and details that he had n't noticed at the time .
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