Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time ! |
| 2 | Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't |
| 3 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 4 | Practically nobody had a car in at the time . |
| 5 | I 'll make my mind up at the time . ’ |
| 6 | Er minding motors outside the Arms and the Bridge Hotel every night , maybe only get sixpence or sevenpence cos there was n't that many cars about at the time . |
| 7 | The joke around at the time was that it would be filmed with a hand-held camera . |
| 8 | Me brother was deputy in at the time erm |
| 9 | Had n't Naylor Massingham been the only other person around at the time of that incident ? |
| 10 | There was nobody else 's staff around at the time . |
| 11 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 12 | Five went to their usual dealer to buy cannabis or speed and , as there was a drought on at the time , were offered and accepted heroin instead . |
| 13 | Yes , well er I was saying er it was this Mr I think it was , but it was to do with er a big firm in at the time and they wanted er some locks at Liverpool |
| 14 | The guitars also had some of the thinnest necks , the lowest , fastest frets and the best vibratos around at the time . |
| 15 | The new interpretation seems to push Hallucigenia , the Chinese fossils , and some other species around at the time ( including another of the Burgess oddballs , Aysheaia ) into the arthropod phylum , with insects , crabs and trilobites . |
| 16 | He despised homosexuals , and although there were plenty of other sexually depraved aristocrats around at the time , he was unfortunate enough to have married into a family ( the Montreuils ) who had strong court connections , and it was they who made sure that he was jailed , partly to get him off their backs ( so to Speak ) and partly as an example to others . |
| 17 | Since 15 million years is a very short period in terms of evolution , we have to conclude that there were some big whales around at the time of the catastrophe . |
| 18 | It was too early in the negotiating round at the time of writing to be confident about trends for the coming year , although most expectations for the 1–10MW bracket are that the new deals will merely take account of inflation . |
| 19 | In fact I pointed that out to the grave-diggers , but they were already 4ft 6ins down at the time . |
| 20 | David had a couple of records out at the time and he sang all his songs in the show that we did . |
| 21 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 22 | He had been shooting since he was about five years old ; there were few clubs or competitions around at the time but the Scorton was one of the leading ones . |
| 23 | That 's right yeah , I was also er doing a bit for a guy in at the time . |
| 24 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |