Example sentences of "say [adv] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 2 | Mr Mazowiecki also said pointedly at the time that he was not prepared to replace one philosophically biased government ( a communist one ) with another philosophically biased government ( an avowedly Catholic one ) . |
| 3 | I said so at the time , did n't I , Kathleen ? ’ |
| 4 | I said so at the time , if you remember . |
| 5 | ‘ You never said so at the time , ’ she mutters . |
| 6 | And then we added eight two , which asked the director to explore the long-term viability of the estate , now we made that , and I said so at the time , the answer to that could be either positive or negative . |
| 7 | He said once at the time of Suez with a charge of bitterness , " Those Egyptians are rats . " |
| 8 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 9 | But , says his co-worker Dr David Morgan , if Allison thought that this was due to the production of free-oxygen radicals , ‘ He certainly did not say so at the time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Then why on earth did n't you say so at the time ? ’ |