Example sentences of "i think [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought at the time : ‘ Is Sinn really conceivable with no Bedeutung at all ? ' ’ |
| 2 | I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this . |
| 3 | The bar was like a cruise ship passing through the tropics without , I thought at the time , quite the same sexual charge . |
| 4 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought at the time that leaving John Mayall 's Bluesbreakers was a bit speculative , even though Peter , Mick ( Fleetwood ) and myself had already cut a couple of tracks within the Bluesbreakers band format , one of which was called Fleetwood Mac . |
| 6 | I thought at the time , this simply could n't happen in England . |
| 7 | Certainly I thought at the time that Hunt would end up sponsored by Marlboro and driving a McLaren . |
| 8 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 9 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 10 | I must say I thought at the time that it was a pretty rough night to choose for a sentimental journey … |
| 11 | ‘ That 's what I thought at the time , anyway , ’ said William , ‘ but I think now it must have been Barry Moxton . |
| 12 | I thought at the time that her absent luncheon companion must have been a boorish character , and even the greatest friends of Randolph Churchill would find difficulty in defending him from this charge . |
| 13 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |
| 14 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 15 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 16 | A careful , precise man , I thought at the time , one who looked after his health . |
| 17 | She was a real beauty , or so I thought at the time . |
| 18 | I thought at the time ‘ What a waste . |
| 19 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 20 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 21 | I thought at the time sh er she was leaving it pretty late . |
| 22 | I think at the time the RAF had more volunteers than it could cope with and much weeding out was done , but in his case he blotted his copybook good and proper by doing a bit of unauthorised low flying over a south Devonshire town , frightening all the old ladies . |
| 23 | I think he just figured he would n't do it — he 's in this big rock band and would n't think of doing it , although I think at the time Phil would have ! |
| 24 | Again we got into time constraints , there was one or two things obviously that were n't filled in , but I think that 's only been nitpicking I think at the time . |
| 25 | I think at the time of the er , of the A G M , I said we were pleased by the prospects and in the current statement I say the outlook continues promising , but I do n't think at any point we 've made more of a forecast than that . |
| 26 | I think for the time being I I 'd I 'd I 'd I 'd I 'd I think that it makes sense to be fully in control of it , I think that I you know have great faith in Virgin Atlantic , erm I think that it erm it 's got a great future , erm but erm er I do n't think it would be that easy to erm you know to I do n't think we 'd have partners falling over themselves to get into the airline business in in in this recession . |
| 27 | So I think for the time being , if you allow us , we will find out which tables we want and then we will fund raise for them and get the money for them , okay . |
| 28 | Oh that would have been I think it was between the wars , I think between the time of the world wars . |
| 29 | I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather . |
| 30 | And I think by the time we get |