Example sentences of "[noun] at the time but " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he came round to use mine and to be honest I did n't have too much interest in punk rock at the time but did this fanzine for 12 issues and I got into it . |
| 2 | James said later : ‘ It was a bit of a drunken laugh at the time but I want to forget it — it was a stupid thing to do . ’ |
| 3 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 4 | At the time I was very much in love , one of those adventures which seem of overwhelming importance at the time but , afterwards , leave one wondering if it was n't a kind of sickness . |
| 5 | Which was pretty demoralizing for us that were in the water at the time but |
| 6 | ‘ It depends on the demand in the trade at the time but some years the training classes are full and sometimes there 's hardly any recruits at all , ’ he explained . |
| 7 | Peter Runciman , 64 , said he was a director and executive chairman of Shanks & McEwan at the time but was now retired from full-time work . |
| 8 | In a level voice he said , ‘ You gave me to understand that as far as you know there was no woman at the time but your mother . |
| 9 | Indeed , some of their officials expressed strong opinions on the subject at the time but have since decided to wait and , as one put it , ‘ let the team do the talking on the park in Newry . ’ |
| 10 | This back-dating of the appointment was not of significance at the time but it is an early example of how masters in Stockport could come and go without the immediate supervision of the Company . |
| 11 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 12 | The Tournament at Eglinton caught the fancy of the nation at the time but few who were involved could have thought that it would be so well remembered 150 years later . |
| 13 | The railway ghost caused a great stir in Darlington at the time but many were very sceptical about its bona fides . |
| 14 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 15 | There were only four women at the time but we all believed firmly in the need to organize women . |
| 16 | However , according to Dave Ball — who was European Marketing Director for Artisoft at the time but has now switched camps to take up the same role at Performance — the deal fell through at the end of last year . |
| 17 | The photographer offered to sell him the negatives for £30 at the time but he did n't have the money . |
| 18 | The chap who had been kind enough to get me my pint said , ‘ I was only a young chap at the time but I remember him well . |
| 19 | For example , it has often been observed ( by no means only by Marxists ) that the ideas of Beccaria — and the Enlightenment generally — were linked to the interests of the bourgeois class who were gaining in economic and political power at the time but still needed legal protection against the old ruling class , the landowning aristocracy who retained a corrupt control of the levers of state power ( Beccaria , 1963 : xxi ; Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 1 ) . |