Example sentences of "[pron] at the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 2 | I remembered now another give-away sound which at the time I had n't noticed — a click on the line at the beginning of my conversation with the woman . |
| 3 | Well , Mr er er Mr er wife was in the room , there was a child in the room , erm which at the time I did n't even realise there were two children but er there was one child in the room and er really for decency more than anything . |
| 4 | As we know er Darwin published his great work in eighteen fifty nine cos he had to , he really did n't want to but was forced , but in eighteen seventy one he published another important book called the Descent of Man or Evolution in Relation to Sex and in this book Darwin established a principle , which a which at the time he was widely criticized and ridiculed and this was the principle of female choice . |
| 5 | do n't always tell you at the time they just say |
| 6 | You have my sincere hope and prayers for a safe delivery out of your troubles , and which I fear not will be granted to you , and if I am not with you at the time you will have something to present to me when I do . ’ |
| 7 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 8 | The suggestion made there is that it is only equitable that the jurisdiction can not be exercised against a creditor unless the same conditions are applicable to him at the time he receives the payment as are applicable to jurisdiction over the debtor . |
| 9 | He had not been serious , and although she had thought herself in love with him at the time he had known that it would be a mistake for them to marry — even if Burun , who was her father , had been prepared to permit such a thing . |
| 10 | He said that he thought that the wife entered into the charge of her own free will but that he would probably not have mentioned the question of undue influence to her at the time she executed the charge . |
| 11 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 12 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 13 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 14 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 15 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
| 16 | I do n't think I should say sorry for doing what at the time I believed to be right , ’ said the Prime Minister , receiving his loudest ovation of the night . |
| 17 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |