Example sentences of "and [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very annoyed and upset at the time because there were other girls of my age in the dale and they could go and I could not . |
| 2 | One man who emerged from the tour with much credit was Alan Smith , the manager , who had been diplomacy personified during the political crisis and sensitive and supportive at the time of Barrington 's death . |
| 3 | The informants contacted during the snowball sampling procedure were aged between 18 and 32 at the time of interview . |
| 4 | He had been unemployed and depressed at the time of the theft , and had since started attending college and returned to live with his mother . |
| 5 | I was young and foolish at the time , |
| 6 | The secrets of the period , hidden and unknowable at the time , have been revealed in the historical conclusion of 1914 . |
| 7 | Reasonableness is thus judged in the light of circumstances known and foreseeable at the time the contract was made . |
| 8 | Such views were both pervasive and unexceptional at the time . |
| 9 | However , the Court of Appeal decided in Burton v Islington Health Authority [ 1992 ] 3 WLR 617 that at common law a child en ventre sa mρere and unborn at the time of the defendant 's negligence has a cause of action for injuries caused by that negligence . |
| 10 | This remark , which struck me as silly and offensive at the time , was to be recalled later . |
| 11 | If I had been older and wiser at the time , then I would have been sorely tempted to write back ( on Mother 's behalf ) something like this : ‘ My dear son , I must regretfully inform you , not with malice but with sorrow , that money is not easy to come by . |
| 12 | Albújar was reported to have been alone and unarmed at the time of the attack . |
| 13 | The Maguire Seven were Anne Maguire and Patrick Maguire ; their sons Vincent Maguire and Patrick Joseph Maguire ( respectively 17 and 14 at the time of their sentencing ) ; Patrick 's brother-in-law Guiseppe Conlon ( Gerard Conlon 's father ) , who died in prison in 1980 ; Anne 's brother Sean Smyth ; and a family friend named Patrick O'Neill . |
| 14 | All were aged between twenty and thirty at the time of interview , and all were mothers . |
| 15 | The list is comprehensive and correct at the time of publication , but additions and deletions may occur from time to time . |
| 16 | The following week James Butlin reported that she had been ‘ exceedingly foul in her linen and verminous at the time of her admission ’ . |
| 17 | I HAVE been engaged twice before , but they were only kid 's stuff as I was 17 and 19 at the time . |