Example sentences of "but at the time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the time he was glad to leave . |
| 2 | Lewis treasured this conversation in after years , but at the time he found it disconcerting and annoying . |
| 3 | But at the time he had no one with the expertise to guide him , and was very easily influenced by the persuasive arguments of the last person he spoke to on any given subject . |
| 4 | By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't see how anybody can pick up a guitar nowadays and not give some credit to Jimi Hendrix because , at the time — people do n't remember this — but at the time he came out , people were ready to give up the guitar and go onto other instruments . |
| 6 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |
| 7 | I love Lucy , but at the time he was more important to me than she was , in one sense . |
| 8 | Later , when lucidity returned to him , the recollection of that made him blush and cringe , but at the time he did not care . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're divorced now , apparently , and Paul 's married to someone else , but at the time he was going to divorce Sonia and marry me . |
| 10 | And I do n't know how , what 's happened about it now but at the time he was still having to pay for it |