Example sentences of "own [noun] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The widowed mother , the residence in north London , and the daily travel to work in the London bank were all pad of Eliot 's own experience at the time of the composition of most of The Waste Land . |
| 2 | ’ On reading these lines I realised that , if the word ‘ starving ’ were to be substituted for the word ‘ dying ’ , they could be read as a description of my own attitude at the time I was anorexic . |
| 3 | My own reaction at the time — a guilty feeling of my own inadequacy as both feeder and fed , mingled with a wish that she had not told me — indicates that this is an important piece of information . |
| 4 | On reading the works of Sylvia Plath , who did indeed live the life of suicide , I have noticed that her comments on impingement often seem to coincide with my own feelings at the time I was anorexic . |
| 5 | She should have stayed with Fernando , she should have had faith in her own feelings at the time — and his . |
| 6 | National Express , which stormed back into the black in line with its own forecasts at the time of flotation in December , added a penny to 192p . |
| 7 | One of the difficulties of using politicians ' or military leaders ' diaries is that they are always likely to be personal justifications of their own actions at the time , and of course they give the impression that the whole of history consists of political intrigue or war . |
| 8 | But if selection is to take place , it seems reasonable to attempt to do so on the basis of what an organisation saw as important in its own terms at the time , rather than attempting to apply current research criteria to the process . |
| 9 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 10 | Strangely , it was the part of a girl in her mid-twenties ( close to Carole Ann Ford 's own age at the time ) , in the traumatic play Man on a Bicycle , that won her an invitation to visit the Doctor Who Office and discuss the role of Susan with Verity Lambert . |