Example sentences of "[pron] was at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at all times impressed by their standard of workmanship . |
| 2 | I was at that time in Jesus Christ , Superstar . |
| 3 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 4 | I was at that time really completely persuaded of the relevance and interest of this approach and of this subject matter . |
| 5 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 6 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 7 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
| 8 | I was at one time er the ph printer Not the photographer but the printer for erm a free hand out paper called the Islander . |
| 9 | Oh , I only pay dutiful visits now , ’ Rose went on , ‘ but I was at one time very frequently here . |
| 10 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 11 | Their work bears witness both to the power of partnership and to the powers of expression which we feel able to attribute to groups , to some circle of friends or literary ‘ school ’ — in this case , the group which was at one time drunkenly designated the scholarship boys , angry young men or hypergamists of the Fifties . |
| 12 | Mr Holmes a Court has trimmed his Dalgety stake which was at one time nearer 5.8 per cent . |
| 13 | A farming community , existing as a hamlet in ancient times , it probably developed its agricultural resources to fit in with Kilham , which was at one time the chief market town in this part of the East Riding . |
| 14 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
| 15 | I ca n't begin to say how supportive she was at that time . ’ |
| 16 | She was at this time secretary of the Londonderry branch of the NILP . |
| 17 | She was at this time a large , middle-aged woman whose name I shall not mention . |
| 18 | Though his name does not appear , it was written by William Crowe ( 1745–1829 ) , who was at one time rector of Stoke Abbott in Dorset . |
| 19 | She was the daughter of a scientist who was at one time Deputy Master of the Mint . |
| 20 | In addition to her painting , Fleur Cowles who was at one time associate editor of look magazine and editor-in-chief of Flair — is the author of several books , including an authorised biography of Salvador Dali . |
| 21 | Kermode 's seminar established a useful informal link with the work going on at Cambridge , and the participants included Stephen Heath , Jonathan Culler , who was at that time teaching at Cambridge , and Culler 's then wife , Veronica Forrest-Thomson . |
| 22 | As a result of a visit to Ruthenia in 1939 on behalf of the Evening Standard during which she was briefly imprisoned , she met and married the then notorious journalist Claud Cockburn who was at that time producing his one-man newsletter The Week . |
| 23 | Alexander , the King 's son , who was at that time twelve years old , called out to his father : ‘ What an excellent horse do they lose for want of skill and courage to manage him ! ’ |
| 24 | And at three or four a.m. that morning , as O and Boy kissed for the second time , the blade of a Stanley knife sliced for the second time across the cheek of a man ( I do n't remember his name , it was n't anyone I knew ) who was at that time on his own , not with anyone , just waiting , on his own , at a bus stop , waiting for a night bus which was due at any minute . |
| 25 | J. W. ( later Sir James ) Black , who was at that time an academic pharmacologist in Glasgow , had the idea that blocking the action of adrenaline on the heart might reduce its need for oxygen and so be beneficial in angina pectoris ( a condition in which pain arises because the oxygen supply to heart muscle is insufficient ) . |
| 26 | In October 1987 the Presidency of the Central Committee of the Serbian Party summoned a special meeting of the Central Committee to consider the case of Dragiša Pavlović , who was at that time president of the Presidency of the Belgrade City Committee of the Party . |
| 27 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 28 | Then the Chief Executive made further submissions to the Secretary of State , who was at that time Malcolm Rifkind . |
| 29 | At that time I had planned to acquire the Lightning with another well-known operator , who was at that time very active on the warbird scene . |
| 30 | Present at the Bride Street meeting were Wilson , Tom Mann , Ben Tillett and Charles Lindley , a former sailor out of Sunderland and familiar of Havelock Wilson and his family who was at that time attempting to organise seamen in Sweden . |