Example sentences of "the same time [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She caught sight of Ernest and Charlotte in the crowd and at the same time they saw her . |
| 2 | Counts can be seen as royal servants ; but at the same time they used their position to entrench their local power . |
| 3 | How many days it was out of service and this that and the other and erm they used to send us an invoice on the mileage run because at the same time we knew what tyres were on the bus we had to inform them of any tyre changes and they kept records the same as us . |
| 4 | I WAS EXTREMELY moved by Charles Fox 's superb article on Stephen Hawking ( ‘ Stephen Hawking , Superstar ’ ) , but at the same time it left me feeling uneasy . |
| 5 | Well one of the great lessons of life is of course you ca n't have everything you want all at the same time it took me about sixty years to learn that . |
| 6 | Yet at the same time it reminded her all too clearly of something she was dreading more and more . |
| 7 | It mocked me , but at the same time I knew I was in danger of surrendering to it , that damned semblance of what I wanted — I was being weakened by it , seduced into yielding to your power over me , and it 's so much more comprehensive than my one-dimensional influence on you . |
| 8 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 9 | My thinking was in some way parallel to that of the generative semantics school , but at the same time I developed my own ideas independently of them . |
| 10 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 11 | ‘ Yet at the same time I imagined what the celebrations would be like at Molineux . |
| 12 | At the same time I felt I was owed an explanation . |
| 13 | Two years later he bought my mother a new car and at just the same time I caught him in his office with his secretary . ’ |
| 14 | At the same time I reminded her that she was feeling comfortable and relaxed and completely free from tension . |
| 15 | Must have been the same time I did my leg in . |
| 16 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 17 | At the same time he said he had had to select his shots wisely to get the better of Chesnokov . |
| 18 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 19 | She stumbled off the edge of the concrete path , and immediately his flashlight was directed towards the ground and at the same time he pressed her arm more tightly into his side , and like this they walked on until they reached the wood , and there their steps slowed and quietly he asked , ‘ Where 's he gone tonight ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ When I was ten , my Dad bought me a guitar for Christmas , which I 'd asked for , but at the same time he enrolled me at the local golf club ! |
| 21 | He hated other people 's leaving him for bed , and when he saw a hard mood ahead he often took a sleeping pill at supper to stop himself from being clamorous , though at the same time he found his terror about the end of a day daft in a creature who was surely intended by build to signify immortal fun . |
| 22 | At the same time he found it interesting that prison had made the former district governor more passionate about the cause championed by Akhenaten . |
| 23 | But no , a quick consultation of the calendar , given to you so happily by the feed rep last Christmas ( at the same time he gave you a bill ) , shows lighting up time to be 18.52 . |
| 24 | Sharpe shouted , and at the same time he raked his spurs back so savagely that the exhausted and astonished mare jerked forward , almost spilling Sharpe out of his tall Hussar 's saddle . |
| 25 | The tuition he received gave Mendoros a profound respect for GE , but at the same time he learned something about the limitations of giant companies . |
| 26 | At the same time he set his troops to ravage the surrounding fields and vineyards . |
| 27 | At the same time he immersed himself in public service beyond as well as within the Jewish and Anglo-Jewish worlds . |
| 28 | He caught sight of the woman at the same time she heard him . |
| 29 | He became the rejecting father who never helped her , while at the same time she asked him to be mother and take over . |
| 30 | Yet , at the same time she knew she had laid herself open for such a reply . |