Example sentences of "[pron] at the time [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 2 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 3 | No-one usin' it at the time so that was lucky too . ’ |
| 4 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 5 | And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years . |