Example sentences of "but at the time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt . |
| 2 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 3 | I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 4 | We 're used to it now , of course , but at the time it seemed rather exciting . |
| 5 | It is a method that is nearly always used there days but at the time it was quite a new technique , certainly for a band like The Wedding Present . |
| 6 | At this remove , the whole incident seems insane , but at the time it only proved once again what any driver has always known , that the constructors as a class are hard-nosed men with egos every bit as big as their drivers ' and that there is n't enough concern among them for driver welfare or safety to fuel a heart for a minute . |
| 7 | Adds the source : ‘ Slash and his mates laughed about the incident afterwards , but at the time it was terrifying . |
| 8 | It did go through my mind a few times , but at the time it does n't seem that important . |
| 9 | But at the time it was thought that the record had yielded up its secrets in sufficient quantities to allow confident assertions to be made about the character of the evolutionary mechanism . |
| 10 | This Invectiva in Girardum Engolismensem Episcopum has been excoriated by modern readers as calumnious and anti-Semitic , but at the time it was promulgated by such church dignitaries as Bernard of Clairvaux , Peter the Venerable , and Haimeric , papal chancellor under Honorius II . |
| 11 | And then after I had my daughter I was going to go back in there but at the time it was just like a junior 's position , |
| 12 | Afterwards she thought that , of course she must already have formulated the plan somewhere at the back of her mind ; but at the time it burst upon her with all the excitement of a vision . |
| 13 | Perhaps she should have put him right there and then , but at the time it had not seemed terribly important , for instantly , chameleon-like , his demeanour had altered . |
| 14 | That 's true now , but at the time it was questionable . |
| 15 | It 's laughable but at the time it was n't laughable but when you think back , this man that I was put on with , he was acting guard foreman . |
| 16 | But at the time it 's really , really serious . |