Example sentences of "[pers pn] had at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had at one time abandoned hope that the little book would ever be published , for the only copy , typed laboriously by myself , was stolen from a railway carriage on Delhi Station . |
| 2 | I had at that time , and I 'm trying to recall probably two or three people working directly for me , yes |
| 3 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 4 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |
| 5 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 6 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |
| 7 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 8 | Oh we had it was the Airleys we had at that time . |
| 9 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 10 | On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ . |
| 11 | Now when I tell you about lodging houses , we had four registered lodging houses in Ipswich that they had at that time . |
| 12 | It had at one time been a larger crude producer than Saudi Arabia , with an output in 1964 of 2.3 million b/d against the Saudi 1.9 million b/d , only being overtaken in 1966 . |
| 13 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
| 14 | By taking my hand and giving signs , he had at one time wanted me to come to his house — an invitation no doubt to show his friendship . |
| 15 | I believe he had at one time worked with Cizek and he certainly knew of Tagore 's work and writing . |
| 16 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 17 | There was Miss Sharon Hughes with whom the deceased had been very friendly and who , it is said , he had at one time wanted to marry . |
| 18 | He had at one time suspected his mother of doing precisely this . |
| 19 | Mr Hewitt , dying of cancer in hospital , said to Mrs Sen — his close friend for thirty years , with whom he had at one time cohabited — " The house is yours , Margaret . |
| 20 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 21 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 22 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 23 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 24 | The ladies murmured reluctant agreement , since most of them had at one time or another tried to oust her from at least one of the appointments which they themselves coveted . |
| 25 | A further survey of men in the Camberwell Reception Centre one night in 1965 found that a quarter of them had at one time been in mental hospitals and a further quarter were heavily dependent on alcohol . |