Example sentences of "at [art] time [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September . |
| 2 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 3 | This back-dating of the appointment was not of significance at the time but it is an early example of how masters in Stockport could come and go without the immediate supervision of the Company . |
| 4 | Although I did the lights for Hamlet at school , I never understood the play , thinking at the time that it was much ado about very little . |
| 5 | The entrance was on the second deck , a large double door now wide open that Delaney remembered from before , thinking at the time that it led to a storage area . |
| 6 | ‘ It was quite clear at the time that it was just being borrowed . |
| 7 | I must say I thought at the time that it was a pretty rough night to choose for a sentimental journey … |
| 8 | They stayed in the bedroom for half an hour or so , talking , looking at the things , talking : and Clara remembered thinking at the time that it was just such a honeysuckle-filtered , sunny conversational afternoon that would in years to come , whatever those years might bring , cause her the most sad and exquisite nostalgia . |
| 9 | Scott and James McCalman said at the time that it was a stone used for making charcoal after the following fashion . |
| 10 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
| 11 | Were you aware at the time that it was a small house ? |
| 12 | Such was the style of the Service at the time that it was known as " The Best Flying Club in the World " , but measured against today 's standards , utterly amateurish and grossly incompetent . |
| 13 | If the Thamesdown one did n't , er , the officers for their own reasons have separated out this particular er , activity , erm , and I felt at the time that it was unreasonable to give a hundred percent funding to er , most C A B's but not to one . |
| 14 | Police said at the time that it looked like the work of the IRA . |
| 15 | I said at the time that it was rather important from the point of view of the economy that we should not have wage increases which we could not afford . |
| 16 | He was not a big star at the time and it was just a good song . |
| 17 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 18 | I myself thought that the matter was one on which no degrees of murder could be properly invented and was very loath to move the clause , but I was the Attorney-General at the time and it was my duty as Chief Law Officer to carry out the decision of the Cabinet . |
| 19 | ( The concept of invariance was definitely the " in " subject at the time and it was later to provide a central idea in the theory of relativity . ) |
| 20 | I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … . |
| 21 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 22 | I can recall one memorable evening when we met in the Pathfinder Club just as soon as it had opened in the evening ; I was attached to the Air Ministry at the time and it was very soon after the war as we still wore uniform . |
| 23 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 24 | He was working at ICI Billingham at the time and it had become habit , from his days as a London businessman , to wear a flower . |
| 25 | It was very controversial at the time and it 's remained so ever since , and indeed in both Britain and America there are political movements right now to change minimum wage laws in , in ways that I think Florence Kelly would deeply have disapproved of . |
| 26 | It preceded the Beecham by some five years and , unless I am much mistaken , never appeared in this country at the time though it was included in an anthology RCA issued on LP ( 6/70 — nla ) . |
| 27 | I wondered at the time because it was professional jealousy after all , I suppose . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I was embarrassed at the time because it was a serious occasion but secretly I was also very flattered . |
| 29 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 30 | In a large frying or saute pan put a slab of butter ( I use a good quality butter and find that it pays to prepare 2 lb. at a time since it keeps almost indefinitely and is immeasurably superior to fresh butter for frying bread , croquettes , rissoles , fish cakes , veal escalopes , fish à la meunière and a score of other tricky cooking jobs ) . |