Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at that time in Jesus Christ , Superstar . |
| 2 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 3 | I was at that time really completely persuaded of the relevance and interest of this approach and of this subject matter . |
| 4 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 5 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 6 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
| 7 | I was at one time er the ph printer Not the photographer but the printer for erm a free hand out paper called the Islander . |
| 8 | Oh , I only pay dutiful visits now , ’ Rose went on , ‘ but I was at one time very frequently here . |
| 9 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 10 | He was constantly demanding rewrites , even on the set , so you never knew where you were at any time . |
| 11 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
| 12 | I ca n't begin to say how supportive she was at that time . ’ |
| 13 | She was at this time secretary of the Londonderry branch of the NILP . |
| 14 | She was at this time a large , middle-aged woman whose name I shall not mention . |
| 15 | ‘ We were at one time , ’ said Doctor Lanyon . |
| 16 | We were At that time of day the minima the minimum wage was fourteen shillings a day . |
| 17 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 18 | Sir Daniel bade his brother Roger , then living at Coniston Hall , make a report on the mines as they were at that time . |
| 19 | Least they were at that time . |
| 20 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 21 | They were at this time boycotting the Security Council in protest at the UN refusal to replace Taiwan by Communist China ; hence there was no Soviet veto on sending UN forces to support South Korea . |
| 22 | Though all were to achieve success , Oliver as a poet , Bruce as picture journalist and Jeffrey as sports journalist and author of The Spectator 's column , ‘ Low Life ’ , they were at this time a little like characters out of a Chekhov play , searching and bewildered . |
| 23 | But , like its relatives in Devon , the Sussex has remained largely confined to its own region in spite of its potential , though it was at one time more widely used in several English counties as a draught animal . |
| 24 | It was at one time in the library of Darcy Lever Hall , Bolton and in the 1930s it was rescued from a junk furniture shop in Kent . |
| 25 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 26 | Certainly , it was at one time essential for certain musical movements to be of a precise length , for otherwise the dancers of gavottes and minuets would find themselves in sorry confusion . |
| 27 | Indeed it was at one time believed that the advent of the railways had signalled the end of the movement of live meat . |
| 28 | It was at one time said that statutes were drafted in such a way as to be intelligible only to lawyers . |
| 29 | I 'm sure it was at one time . |
| 30 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |