Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at any time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 2 | The County Council has never at any time considered a paper or come to a conclusion erm on the preferred general location for the new settlement . |
| 3 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 4 | I 'm equally confident that the higher direction of MI5 and those operating today do not have anything to do with this , nor have they done so at any time . |
| 5 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 6 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 7 | A It can do so at any time . |
| 8 | These are automatically silenced at night and may be silenced manually at any time by operating levers which are neatly and unobtrusively located on the hand-crafted dial . |
| 9 | They can also choose to behave differently at any time . |
| 10 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |
| 11 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 12 | ( To reduce the risk of over-speeding with modern machines , the airbrakes can be opened fully at any time during the spin or the recovery . ) |
| 13 | If it sits at the bottom of your belly , glowering like a smouldering fire , threatening to explode suddenly at any time and paralyse you ? |
| 14 | ‘ I can go anywhere at any time for an audition . |
| 15 | According to Sotheby 's expert they were of different dates … of different styles , by different hands , the sort of set anyone could put together at any time … |
| 16 | ‘ My mum is a bit upset , ’ says Zara , ‘ but we had a lovely letter from Mr Evans saying that he would pay for me to return home at any time during the first three months in England , which we were very grateful for . ’ |
| 17 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 18 | Ernie , who regarded himself as an expert with horses , had never at any time reassessed his skills . |
| 19 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |