Example sentences of "have [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more elaborate discussion of such structures has appeared at the time of writing ( Chadwick 1985 a and b ) . |
| 2 | It is important to note that the preferential creditors are given priority where a receiver is appointed with respect to a charge ‘ which , as created , was a floating charge ’ ; thus the fact that the charge has crystallised at the time a receiver is appointed does not result in preferential debts being denied their statutory priority . |
| 3 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 4 | I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time . |
| 5 | Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks . |
| 6 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 7 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 8 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 9 | But they 're going to develop a ride which will recreate how it must have felt at the time . |
| 10 | Then , alone there in his room , I began to laugh , as I should have laughed at the time . |
| 11 | The hammered coin finds do not indicate the same form of activity that would have occurred at the time the weights would have been lost so two different forms of activity must have taken place . |
| 12 | You 're laughing bravely , it must have hurt at the time . |
| 13 | How she regretted those words now , however true they might have seemed at the time . |
| 14 | But I could at least sense that even the most feared and serious of all the mental illnesses did have something to do with me , however disturbing that may have seemed at the time . |
| 15 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
| 16 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 17 | ‘ We think the drain cover must have been removed by accident by a farm machine and no-one had realised at the time , ’ |
| 18 | Although the Supreme Court had ruled that amendments should be ratified within a reasonable period in order to reflect a contemporaneous consensus — the time limit most usually accepted was seven years — no such restriction had applied at the time when the amendment was first sent to the states for consideration . |
| 19 | Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled . |
| 20 | Their prosecutors at the trial of the politburo took pleasure in revealing how many cartons of Western cigarettes each of the defendants had possessed at the time of the revolution . |
| 21 | A month later , during investigations made by 5 Corps after the repatriations were over ( see Chapter Eleven ) , statements were taken from a number of officers in the Durham Light Infantry and 46 Recce Regiment , describing what they had seen at the time . |
| 22 | Girls often had gifts like that , Rosalind Swain had said at the time , especially in adolescence . |
| 23 | that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm |
| 24 | Would he have flung the bitter allegations and repeated the damning indictment of her which he had made at the time of Simon 's death ? |
| 25 | She had felt at the time that he was ‘ pretty borderline for special school ’ . |
| 26 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 27 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 28 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 29 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 30 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |