Example sentences of "[verb] at the time [vb past] " in BNC.

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1	The microbes known at the time did not pass through filters , so the nature of the material was obscure .
2	Well we laughed at the time did n't we .
3	At the time it was widely believed that Sugar would not be returning to operational flying , as the following press release issued at the time seemed to indicate :
4	My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist .
5	The ministers denied that de Klerk knew about the payments , arguing that prodecures at the time had not required him to know .
6	He did n't know what Lewis meant about someone looking after the house but no doubt he , Adam , had at the time concocted some tale to keep his father quiet , to keep him away even .
7	Good results were obtained by those who completed their courses and at least 74.3% had at the time progressed satisfactorily ( 460 students ) .
8	‘ I remember this dodgy little manager we had at the time sent out five copies , and I can remember the one he sent to Sounds .
9	‘ I remember this dodgy little manager we had at the time sent out five copies , and I can remember the one he sent to Sounds .
10	Michael 's idol was Buster Keaton , and he had at the time studied Keaton more than I had , and said that he had never used a double .
11	The social worker I had at the time kept coming to see me in Low Newton and saying , ‘ Do you not think it 's best if you get him adopted ? ’
12	Pallister recalled : ‘ What some people in the game said at the time left a bad taste in my mouth .
13	Isolated press reports at the time had noted that most of these forces were from the Nuer tribe , and their victims had been mainly from the Dinka tribe , of which Garang was a member .

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