Example sentences of "[pron] see [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I have stood twice as co-operative Labour candidate and did n't win either time , er much to my husband 's disgust , because I , but you see at the time er Labour was very , very low but erm the local people , you can tell by your boxes , was very loyal to me .
3 A. J. P. Taylor 's grandfather , a businessman who had no doubt read the book , put the point more succinctly in the early months of the First World War : ‘ Ca n't they see as every time they kills a German , they kills a customer ? ’
4 Here , following the banner of reform , led by the gentlemen of that most aristocratic Whig Government , led by Lord Grey , Lord Melbourne , Lord John Russell , they saw for a time before them the high road to a better and fairer ordering of society .
5 But I know what he saw at the time — three mere candle-flames and three mere shadows .
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