Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] at time " in BNC.

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1 All through the African campaign I longed to hear from you , and found it hard at times to keep a stiff upper lip without your help .
2 We found it hard at times , but my players showed character and that was what earned them both points . ’
3 Strong drink , and a frequent excess of it , made him unreliable at times , both in his judgements on the course and in his time-keeping .
4 The greatest single restriction on my practice was not being able to request X-rays when senior medical staff were not in the department , This rendered me ineffective at times when I could be best used , namely evenings and weekends .
5 The data sheets described a wide range of shades of co-operative activity in the planning , developing , or running of programmes , which made it inappropriate at times to define the programmes as either internal or external .
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