Example sentences of "at the time he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , not at the time 'e did n't , nor 'is best man , not for nearly an hour . |
| 2 | He stated that at the time he left , 1859/60 , the holdings were made into one large holding . |
| 3 | He was from London and at the time he left claimed that his wife was homesick . |
| 4 | At the time he expected to touch down the aircraft suddenly ‘ pulled down to his left ’ , he felt the back of the aircraft buckle and was aware of debris coming through the canopy . |
| 5 | At the time he told his son that he thought that he had made a discovery which would prove comparable in importance with those of Newton . |
| 6 | At the time he reached his last book , Human Knowledge , he had abandoned the claim that you could show that the world could be logically constructed out of sense experiences , and adopted a much more Kantian outlook , in which , while he erm said that all our inferences about the world must begin from sense experiences , all that the philosopher can do , is to make explicit the premises that are required in order to infer from the transitory data of my own experiences to the enduring existence of material things and the much more sophisticated kinds of existence which their minute constituents have . |
| 7 | At the time he thought this ‘ dance ’ merely alerted the other bees to the presence of food , which they then located by smell . |
| 8 | The court was told that at the time he thought he had AIDS . |
| 9 | At the time he made a report to the then Keeper of the Indian Section , Robert Skelton , who passed it on to the Indian authorities . |
| 10 | It must show that the defendant had this knowledge or recklessness at the time he made the statement . |
| 11 | Usually ( i.e. in the case of a sale of specific goods in a deliverable state , see Chapter 3 ) , property will have passed first to B ( i. e. at the time he made his contract ) . |
| 12 | Fraud may be difficult to prove , the person making the statement may simply say that he honestly believed , at the time he made it , that it was true . |
| 13 | Mr Kerrigan then questioned Mr Mackie about what it had been like working at the Kenway depot at the time he alleged drugs were being taken . |
| 14 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 15 | In neither case was the customer owner of the goods at the time he disposed of them . |
| 16 | The memoirs were written in a very anti-communist phase of his life , and we know that at the time he received indirect assurances from the head of the Communist Party , Maurice Thorez , that no insurrection was being planned . |
| 17 | Ronnie Ross : ‘ At the time he came to see me for lessons , groups like The Rolling Stones were just beginning to come into vogue although he was more interested in jazz , and we 'd sit and talk about jazz and jazz musicians quite often . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't see how anybody can pick up a guitar nowadays and not give some credit to Jimi Hendrix because , at the time — people do n't remember this — but at the time he came out , people were ready to give up the guitar and go onto other instruments . |
| 19 | The bitterness of that moment was never forgotten ; at the time he wished that he were dead . ’ |
| 20 | At the time he 'd just started City Lights , a new shop in Covent Garden . |
| 21 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 22 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 23 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 24 | At the time he 'd thought she was referring to his slaying of the two men-at-arms . |
| 25 | She wondered what ‘ period ’ he had been enraptured with at the time he 'd been here . |
| 26 | At the time he 'd thought it strange but then forgot about it . |
| 27 | At the time he prepared for and received Eucharist , he was the oldest of 32 residents of a home for severely handicapped children under Catholic auspices . |
| 28 | At the time he said never again , but a few years have gone by and he has a different perception . |
| 29 | At the time he died he was carrying the bomb on his person . |
| 30 | At the time he wrote Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em he was working as a cleaner in a cinema on the Isle of Wight . |