Example sentences of "[verb] at [det] time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone in nursing has at some time experienced the abuse of power by someone more senior , and has been hurt by it , yet the system is difficult to modify . |
| 2 | Almost every child , I imagine , has at some time owned a much-loved Teddy Bear . |
| 3 | The work done at this time did , however , serve to educate the permanent officials in the new approach to economic policy . |
| 4 | A British report on the American occupation written at this time commented scathingly that the Koreans employed by the military government were ‘ almost hopelessly incompetent ’ . |
| 5 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 6 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 7 | If at a time before the end of the relevant period any property ceases to be property subject to a reservation , the donor shall be treated for the purposes of the inheritance tax legislation as having at that time made a disposition of the property by way of a potentially exempt transfer ( s102(3) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 8 | The DO at that time assured his superiors that these Masai were highly unrepresentative : the ‘ Masai tribe as a whole will have nothing to do with political agitators ’ . |
| 9 | Halling at this time had considerable hop fields from the area of the Plough to North and Upper Halling , the last of these fields to survive being in Upper Halling in the early 20th century . |
| 10 | Everybody whom we met at that time remembered you all with great affection . |
| 11 | The nastiest little attack we endured at this time came from , of all papers , the Lancet . |
| 12 | This leads to a further conclusion that these wares were brought to the site by the Catuvellauni , who had at that time embarked on westward expansion . |
| 13 | Schweppe had at that time suffered an apoplectic attack from which he died 18 November 1821 , at his home ( Les Petits Crêts ) in Bouchet , Petit Saconnex , Geneva . |
| 14 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 15 | But in the absence of an increase in the speed of mechanization in the early seventies , the peak rates of accumulation achieved at that time generated peak intensities of demand for labour . |
| 16 | They sometimes have problems with the control of their dentures when eating certain types of food , and some have slight difficulties with swallowing as the muscles get weaker ( or if they have at some time suffered a small stroke ) , so they dislike being watched . |
| 17 | All of these have at some time commanded the Empire 's armies . |
| 18 | Many of the institutions and practices established at this time remained intact until the twentieth century . |
| 19 | Many other films released at this time showed how widespread were the skills developed by Hepworth . |