Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the time I took her , the bushes had grown across the path , and we got stuck , with her widow 's weeds entangled in branches and thorns until she could move no more . |
| 2 | ‘ But at the time I do n't think Kylie or anybody else had any idea of the phenomenal success she would have . |
| 3 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 4 | But at the time I had not realised what it was . |
| 5 | I did n't consider the possibility of turning back to the runway behind me , but at the time I thought that a very low-level circuit to the left would bring me round for a landing on an adjacent runway . |
| 6 | But at the time I still saw him as all-powerful , especially sexually . |
| 7 | Of course they really were avoiding me , but at the time I thought it was true and it sounded great ! ’ |
| 8 | He was a very tormented man , I know that now , but at the time I did n't understand it , and so it was a very tormented relationship . |
| 9 | I know now that owls are not at all like living cuddly toys , but at the time I wanted to reach out and cuddle them . |
| 10 | But at the time I was just hurt that I could n't wade out into the lake and save them . |
| 11 | But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe . |
| 12 | I say that now but at the time I took my task extremely seriously and I swelled with pride when Mr Broadhurst took me back to Churchill Square to buy my second book . |
| 13 | Oh , I can see now that it was unworthy and beside the point but at the time I was so exasperated with the man and his perfidy that any ammunition would have done . |
| 14 | Aye , work study , getting my minutes caught in there cos there was , er but at the time I left there they was doing a lot of shifting about and they were talking about shutting the old sewing . |
| 15 | I knew that Sarah would treat the child as her own , and even take him from me , but at the time I did not mind — what was mine was hers . |
| 16 | I was taken here but at the time I mean I was n't one of the really seriously burnt , I mean I was still conscious and I was still walking around . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe they were sneaky , maybe they were underhand , but at the time I did n't notice you objecting to them . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I know that now — but at the time I was simply too young to cope with her malice . |
| 19 | I contemplate a quick thirty minutes in my sleeping bag , but by the time I 've checked on the sentries again it 's too late . |
| 20 | But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes . |
| 21 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 22 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 23 | ‘ Ca n't spare the water , but by the time I 've finished cooking they 'll be sterile . ’ |
| 24 | They must have been sick and tired of my harping about gay rights , but by the time I had decided to move to London in order to set up home with the man of my dreams , my workmates organized a leaving party which was a touching celebration of the relationship between Keith and myself . |
| 25 | Somehow I got back up and completed the climb — but by the time I hobbled and shuffled back to the sacks , the sun was already casting its final , blood red spotlight on Cloggy 's slabs and buttresses . |
| 26 | But by the time I went to University Jung was actually more hated than Freud was . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 28 | But by the time I tell you her story I want you to be prepared : that 's to say , I want you to have had enough of books , and parrots , and lost letters , and bears , and the opinions of Dr Enid Starkie , and even the opinions of Dr Geoffrey Braithwaite . |
| 29 | Er , but by the time I had my passport so I thought may not get a job again better to try the luck somewhere else . |
| 30 | ‘ I suspect a good deal , but by the time I 've tracked Garry down you 'll be an open book . |