Example sentences of "at [art] time [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa .
2 Hodge had fostered relations with the Korean Democratic Party ( KDP ) , which at the time took a pro-American stance and preferred a continuance of the American occupation to any suggestion of trusteeship .
3 Jokes circulating in Bavaria at the time told a different tale .
4 And the people who were farming Blind Beck at the time killed a pig and sent down a lovely pork pie to us .
5 The researcher who collects data on everything under the sun , just because it seems so easy at the time to ask a few more questions about this and that , usually rues the day when the analysis of all the answers has to be carried out .
6 Pallister recalled : ‘ What some people in the game said at the time left a bad taste in my mouth .
7 The murder trial jury heard how Carter at the time serving a sentence for robbery had subjected Darren Brook to a ‘ barbaric ’ ordeal , which included forcing him to write a suicide note .
8 The film showed his Ferrari jerking right ( Ferrari never carried out an inquiry , but Niki 's chief mechanic at the time conjectured a snapped rear left tie-rod ) , crashing through the chicken wire into the embankment — it was one of several dozen such places at the Ring and spectators were few — bouncing back onto the track , its petrol tank flying through the air .
9 In 1840 Thomas Wilkins , who was at the time running a successful baking business , took over the mill in the centre of Bourton then known as Lower Valley Water Mills .
10 The bomb exploded , apparently prematurely , in an empty bank building near a concert hall where the band of the Blues and Royals was at the time giving a charity performance in front of some 350 people .
11 A study of the assault made on our plans at the time reveals a number of points that were put forward as incontrovertible arguments against what we were proposing .
12 The former system involved the operative having to attach more than 20 bands at a time to hold a mould in position .
13 He also suggests that it might be a good idea if we move one at a time to avoid a ridiculous crush in the tent ; I should get up and move out , then he will get up and start the fire , then Nathan can get up last .
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