Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the time [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 2 | I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies . |
| 3 | Mr Vass said his client had lashed out , in a fight outside a pub , not realising at the time that a bottle in his hand was broken . |
| 4 | Although I did the lights for Hamlet at school , I never understood the play , thinking at the time that it was much ado about very little . |
| 5 | I remember thinking at the time that someone had got their priorities wrong . |
| 6 | The entrance was on the second deck , a large double door now wide open that Delaney remembered from before , thinking at the time that it led to a storage area . |
| 7 | It was true that there were usually two of them together and he remembered thinking at the time that the other one was probably in a shop begging . |
| 8 | They stayed in the bedroom for half an hour or so , talking , looking at the things , talking : and Clara remembered thinking at the time that it was just such a honeysuckle-filtered , sunny conversational afternoon that would in years to come , whatever those years might bring , cause her the most sad and exquisite nostalgia . |
| 9 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 10 | I also remember thinking at the time that dressing like a white man and taking a white man 's name was n't ever going to hide the Apache in him . |