Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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1 | Georgina was most upset at the time . |
2 | She looked back over that stormy summer and was surprised to see each scene , even the ones that had seemed rather painful at the time , shining with an almost holy silver light . |
3 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
4 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
5 | ‘ It was like a comedy , ’ says Banderas , who spoke only Spanish at the time . |
6 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
7 | Such incidents were not always so funny at the time , though , in retrospect we always had a good laugh . |
8 | But erm , the people like and the left , did n't like the book either , because it did n't tell their particular interpretation , as kind of left Marxist er , interpretation as someone has it , was so popular at the time . |
9 | Sometimes I wonder if one really knew they were so desolate at the time . ’ |
10 | She told him about the notes , the broken glass and spilled wine that had shaken her so much at the time . |
11 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
12 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
13 | The researcher who collects data on everything under the sun , just because it seems so easy at the time to ask a few more questions about this and that , usually rues the day when the analysis of all the answers has to be carried out . |
14 | ‘ It used to get me so angry and I really wanted to protect my mother and help her , but I was only six at the time and there was nothing I could do . |
15 | The second I saw was an Alan Ayckbourn , considering that I was only six at the time and I did n't understand some of it I still was enthralled with the acting and enjoyed it almost as equally enough as the panto . |
16 | But it is possible that both views were influenced by hindsight and that matters seemed less clear-cut at the time . |
17 | But it is possible that both views were influenced by hindsight and that matters seemed less clear-cut at the time . |
18 | As I was only three at the time , I lacked confidence in my ability to make it back to dry land under my own steam . ’ |
19 | Being only three at the time , I ca n't remember much about it . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | As a bright and promising student of Armchair Theatre Sydney Newman felt Verity Lambert was right for the Producer 's post , in spite of her distinct lack of years , being only twenty-seven at the time of her appointment . |
22 | She was extremely ill at the time . |
23 | She was only forty-six at the time , but sheer hardship and constant exposure to the worst elements the high Pennines could mete out had drained her youth away . |
24 | Johnny Cooper was the ‘ baby ’ of the unit and was only 18 at the time . |
25 | ‘ And you were only 18 at the time as opposed to being a grown man . ’ |
26 | ‘ And you were only 18 at the time as opposed to being a grown man . ’ |
27 | Way back in the 1960s , when the tricolour flew in Divis St , I was only sixteen at the time . |
28 | Maidstone is one of a number of designated prisons able to take ‘ lifers ’ and it can provide up to 100 places for them , although there were only 80 at the time of my visit . |
29 | It was all terribly embarrassing at the time — not the defeat as much as the abject humiliation when the result was read out at assembly on the Monday morning … |
30 | His son , with a face blemished by a large red birthmark which led to his being known as James of the Fiery Face , was only 6 at the time of the assassination . |