Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the time [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in the bedroom at the time and in an advanced state of pregnancy . |
| 2 | We were playing three piece at the time and we thought , ‘ What are we going to do ? ’ |
| 3 | Handloom weaving was an important cottage industry at the time and Charles was sent to Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire to learn the trade ; that was why Robert Burns referred to him as ‘ Wabster ( weaver ) Charlie ’ in the poem Epistle to James Tennant . |
| 4 | So he came round to use mine and to be honest I did n't have too much interest in punk rock at the time but did this fanzine for 12 issues and I got into it . |
| 5 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 6 | Early Viennese modernism at the time and just after the time of the Secession of 1898 , parallel to the rise of the mass popular political movements , challenged this habitus of the Bürgertum from ‘ below ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ It was daylight at the time and the curtains in your brother 's office were drawn . ’ |
| 8 | Steve Douglas 's Fanzine ‘ Go for It ’ started this year , and from a piece of folded photocopied paper , it eventually went on to become a printed glossy skate mag covering much of the skate scene at the time and the next few years for which the Farnborough scene played a major part if not the main part . |
| 9 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 10 | He stayed in digs in a colliery village at the time and found it equally possible to integrate easily into the local community . |
| 11 | The lads were having lunch at the time and when ‘ Jacki ’ leaned over to shake hands with Peter Grant , his tie fell into a bowl of soup . |
| 12 | James said later : ‘ It was a bit of a drunken laugh at the time but I want to forget it — it was a stupid thing to do . ’ |
| 13 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 14 | There were between 10 and 20 aircraft in the circuit at the time and G-AYIH was seen by witnesses and on radar to join the circuit at the beginning of the downwind leg about one mile south of runway 26 . |
| 15 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 16 | She was heavily involved in the election campaign at the time and Dysart brought her down here for dinner . |
| 17 | The agency was enjoying considerable success on a worldwide basis at the time and , when there was a change in ownership , he considered starting his own business in marketing consulting . |
| 18 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 19 | Howard 's accounts received such widespread attention at the time and are still read two hundred years after his death because he so precisely ‘ set down matter of fact ’ . |
| 20 | Such a number represented about one-half of the NAS&FU 's likely membership at the time and some two-thirds of all the foreigners sailing on British ships . |
| 21 | Naturally nobody would have made this distinction at the time and certainly Julian and all her friends thought that she was at death 's door . |
| 22 | At the time I was very much in love , one of those adventures which seem of overwhelming importance at the time but , afterwards , leave one wondering if it was n't a kind of sickness . |
| 23 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |
| 24 | TWW had n't long lost the franchise at the time and the early plans by Harlech , as they were then unwisely called , for news presentation in Bristol just were n't working out . |
| 25 | He requested that his parents and a very close friend of ours say goodbye to him , and that I 'd be in the room at the time and stay with him when they said goodbye . |
| 26 | Exactly what took place , as far as Blake was concerned , during his period of captivity is unclear , but certainly none of his colleagues ever voiced any suspicion that Blake was in any way pro-Communist at the time or afterwards . |
| 27 | Which was pretty demoralizing for us that were in the water at the time but |
| 28 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 29 | Elgar was n't allowed a dog by his wife at the time and he sort of adopted Dan and was fascinated by him . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that Penda 's political power was in eclipse at the time and that Eowa was the dominant ruler among the Mercians as a subject king of the northern Angles from the mid-630s until his death , possibly in Oswald 's army , in the battle at Maserfelth , but there is no reason why Penda and Eowa should not have been ruling jointly , with Eowa as king possibly of the northern Mercians and Penda as king of the southern . |