Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 2 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 3 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 4 | No , Maggie protected herself at all times . |
| 5 | But we never touched them at that time . |
| 6 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 7 | And it was n't arbitrary it was where we needed somebody at that time . |
| 8 | Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work . |
| 9 | Alec Guinness , who first met him at this time , considers that reading poetry on radio was the best thing he did . |
| 10 | You can see furniture , you can see old houses , Arthur Neagus going round all these old houses , you can see a lot of things now , that the normal public never would see in the , the ordinary man in the street probably never saw them at one time , but I think this must of made a difference to people . |
| 11 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 12 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 13 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 14 | ‘ Did he at any time make advances to you ? ’ |
| 15 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |