Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] 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 But we never touched them at that time .
3 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 .
4 Alec Guinness , who first met him at this time , considers that reading poetry on radio was the best thing he did .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time .
8 Did he at any time make advances to you ? ’
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