Example sentences of "at [adj] time i be " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror . |
| 2 | At that time I was still on good terms with the General Intendant and he said , ‘ you should come to the rehearsals ’ . |
| 3 | At that time I was very young and very anti-aristo . |
| 4 | At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range . |
| 5 | At that time I was eyeballing distances and clubbing him with my two-clubs-stronger method . |
| 6 | But above all , I needed something that at that time I was quite unable to put into words . |
| 7 | In fact a lot was happening in my world , but at that time I was n't at all aware of it . |
| 8 | At that time I was working for Hawker Siddeley Dynamics in Hatfield . |
| 9 | At that time I was afraid of such processes . |
| 10 | Perhaps because I was involved with other things , perhaps because at that time I was still trying to find my feet as a bisexual and felt isolated by straight sisters and excluded by some Black lesbians . |
| 11 | It was big windows facing the street and people looking in and at that time I was very , very recognizable because of the publicity I was having at the club . |
| 12 | Well I 'd , , I come from Lebanon and I get married in here and I said the vows but I did n't understand , at that time I was n't speaking English so |
| 13 | Well at that time I was getting as much as ten bob a week . |
| 14 | At that time I was strongly in favour of sanctions , and I supported the dispatch of American troops to Saudi Arabia , according to Bush , to deter an attack on that country ; though I would not myself have acceded to an American request to put British ground troops there , and I think many people in the Ministry of Defence argued strongly against that . |
| 15 | At that time I was turning it out with some facility , and I had had two poems published in The Isis in my first year . |
| 16 | At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to . |
| 17 | At that time I was a Member of Parliament . |
| 18 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the undoubted paranoia of the fanatical adherent of solar monotheism in ancient Egypt , the Pharaoh Akhenaten ( alias Amenhotep IV ) , but at that time I was unable to demonstrate how such paranoid tendencies were related to the evolution of cultivating societies . |
| 19 | I did n't try to make them fall for me , because at that time I was n't in the mood for that sort of thing . ’ |
| 20 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 21 | Well it was on at that time I was dropping pancakes and crumpets and the manager come up one morning and said that there was running late . |
| 22 | At that time I was greatly influenced , as were many in the U.K. , by linguistic theory , then called ‘ scale and category grammar ’ , later renamed ‘ systemic linguistics ’ . |
| 23 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 24 | ‘ At that time I 'm usually taking the children to school . ’ |
| 25 | At this time I was in Istanbul , commissioned by Jonathan Cape to write a book about it . |
| 26 | At this time I was at a loss to understand how it managed to hover for so long in the same place . |
| 27 | At this time I was on holiday and I spent the next three days redecorating my sitting room ( a boring task , but necessary ) while waiting for the G4 to harden . |
| 28 | At this time I was thinking of a career in writing . |
| 29 | At this time I was often very tired , because I was pregnant . |
| 30 | At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose . |