Example sentences of "[pers pn] at [adj] time [coord] " in BNC.

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1 He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable .
2 I mean what we 've heard that in fact erm they had met in prison , but was that known to you at that time or simply that they were known to each other and that had a record ?
3 All of us at John Fowler Holidays will be pleased to see you at any time and hope to have the pleasure of giving you a good holiday .
4 There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another .
5 Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . .
6 Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another .
7 And we were not too keen on it at that time but had been all right .
8 It can not be partly certain because the tenant can determine it at any time and partly uncertain because the landlord can not determine it for an uncertain period .
9 I said look Neil you can drive , but let's not let's not take it that I 'm saying that you must drive let's go into the question of why you 're making a mess of it at this time and we , oh honestly Brenda if I 've got black circles under my eyes do not be surprised because , of course , this all goes back to his absolutely , appallingly , stupid mother !
10 There 's nothing new that women have n't tried on me at one time or another .
11 Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence !
12 Ask the Lord to bless and encourage them at this time and that they would not suffer from ill health .
13 She had eight brothers and had had to fight or argue with every one of them at some time or another .
14 This is an absolute treasure house for any editor or writer unsure of a common foreign phrase , an abbreviation , or the spelling of a tricky name — which means all of us at one time or another .
15 The fact is that , in an age when players were never encouraged or expected to be adaptable , the only positions that Billy did not fill for us at one time or another were those of goalkeeper , centre-forward and centre-half .
16 Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 .
17 The main need , however , is to bring the two sides somehow together , since all of us at one time or another need help from both of them .
18 But you see the important thing about this scene is not what is taking place there it 's not really that Pilate is standing in , in the trial as the judge of Jesus , it 's not that Pilate has i , within his hands the power of life and death for Jesus , that 's not the important issue , that 's not the real significance of this incident , the real significance is that every one of us at some time or other stand in the same place that Pilate stood .
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