Example sentences of "[adj] at [art] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |
| 2 | ‘ The wind was fresh at the time but should not have given the trawler any problems , ’ Mr Ellis said . |
| 3 | Either I was wrong at the time or the author has dramatically improved . |
| 4 | ‘ It was quite clear at the time that it was just being borrowed . |
| 5 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 6 | ‘ I was embarrassed at the time because it was a serious occasion but secretly I was also very flattered . |
| 7 | She was nearly 80 years old at the time and had been a devoted parent and strict catholic all her life . |
| 8 | I was eight years old at the time and completely confused by their attitude . |
| 9 | One can of course see Colonel Airey 's point , although the fact remains that his Commando was unemployed at the time and Stirling was about to be required to undertake an important series of raids . |
| 10 | Er and it was felt appropriate at the time that that should be indicated on the T the key diagram to be to be helpful more than nothing else . |
| 11 | His reasons for using the guillotine in the past , which were appropriate at the time but are inappropriate now , were apparently that Labour legislation was very good and his guillotine motions showed the requisite democratic reticence . |
| 12 | The patients were under only local anaesthetic , and so were conscious at the time and able to talk to the doctor . |
| 13 | This was part of Fender 's problem , of course , and the 30″ scale length strings were so unusual at the time as to cause major headaches in manufacture . |
| 14 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 15 | It was obvious at the time that this was not the first operation of its kind . |
| 16 | In Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 the plaintiff sued in respect of defects with which she was born which she alleged were attributable to a motor accident that rendered her mother a quadriplegic at the time that she was pregnant with the plaintiff . |
| 17 | ‘ We were frustrated at the time but came out with a completely proven business plan , ’ Mr Church says . |
| 18 | She only escaped because she was ill at the time and had remained behind . |
| 19 | and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release . |
| 20 | I suppose it was good at the time that I was n't kissing Andrew , otherwise I would have had a mouthful of sick . |
| 21 | I was quite sure at the time that I would n't want any more children . |
| 22 | you know , if they want the first day , then there gon na have to do another lot so what 's the point of sort of yourself out with fucking , I was n't really sure at the time that I wanted to go to so , you know , I , I said no I needed this job , but probably a bad I 've been offered a couple of month one 's as well , one month and two month 's , but I mean the trouble is |
| 23 | Sometimes our dreams tell coherent stories , but more often they are a jumble that seems logical at the time but is revealed by our conscious memory as a nonsense . |
| 24 | It happened because I was pretty vulnerable at the time and when I came across this lady who I felt sorry for I imagined that I would be able to support her and make her happy . |
| 25 | A partial answer might be that he was confident at the time that Argentina would be the first country to exploit atomic energy for industrial purposes . |
| 26 | He was married at the time but he was nae . |
| 27 | Both these projects were provided for in the Five Year plan current at the time but were shelved for lack of funds . |
| 28 | I mean I did go to Denman , but I was n't very well at the time and I did n't get round the house so I would like to go myself . |
| 29 | I must own that the possibility of taking matters further did cross my mind and infiltrated my uncensored dreams , but it would have been unwise at the time and later I was glad we had left things as they were . |
| 30 | Some of the officers concerned were also unsure at the time that such courses had been sufficiently thought through . |