Example sentences of "at the [adj] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present time he told Farrel , he was n't doing anything . |
| 2 | He said , just at the right time he decided that he ca n't get bath any more . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) The limiting words ‘ in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown ’ leave the court free to order a witness to give evidence notwithstanding that at the relevant time he was an officer or servant of the Crown , if the matters in respect of which he is to give evidence did not come to his notice in that capacity , for example , the civil servant who , when on holiday or at home , happens to witness a road traffic accident . |
| 4 | By some terrific fluke Richard came face to face with his future at the precise time he most needed to see it . |
| 5 | For at the very time he was sitting alone in the house , in the early hours of the morning of the funeral day , reading again his father 's will , the most modern ship in the world , the SS Titanic , was going down stern first , with all its lights blazing into the icy waters of the North Atlantic . |