Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
2 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
3 | Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) . |
4 | I write now as I found at the time . |
5 | All along , as I reported at the time , Sarah had wanted to take her baby with her . |
6 | I assumed at the time that he was crying for the garden and what he 'd done to it . |
7 | It was , I assumed at the time , perfect love . |
8 | Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans . |
9 | The only clue ( and one I ignored at the time ) , was Selkirk 's interest in the Abbey of St Denis to the north of the city . |
10 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
11 | It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
12 | I studied for a time in Paris , Padua and Salerno . ’ |
13 | Anyway , I paid at the time . |
14 | I agree that the effect of Spitting Image 's caricature on Steel 's relationship with Owen was such that , as I commented at the time of the collapse of the Alliance , it was the only television programme that could claim to have brought down not just one but two political parties simultaneously . |
15 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
16 | I may not have understood everything I heard at the time , but later it all slotted into place . |
17 | I coped at the time but now , five years on , I feel guilty and resentful about the whole affair . |
18 | Many years ago I worked as a Time and Motion Study ( Work Study ) officer in industry , where the question was always : why ca n't all workers produce the output achieved by the best workers ? |
19 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
20 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |
21 | I honestly ca n't remember how I felt at the time — I think I was just shocked . |
22 | I felt at the time , that if such a Call sere presented I should have great difficulty , indeed , in declining it , even in the face of much inconvenience and pecuniary sacrifice . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I know now , although I think I knew at the time , why one was so cared for by the ordinary people of Bury in 1941 . |
25 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
26 | ‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said . |
27 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
28 | I looked at the time and saw that it was a new world record , so I thought that I , too , must have run fast . |
29 | I looked at the time . |
30 | I looked at the time . |