Example sentences of "but at [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others .
2 ‘ Some of them were , as a matter of fact , but at the time they did n't have the signs to tell them so . ’
3 The religious wounds he opened up have never again entirely healed ; but at the time they literally tore the country in two .
4 But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole .
5 The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years .
6 ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club .
7 ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club .
8 ( Perhaps it was a little strange , Alice thought later , but at the time she was not surprised . )
9 But at the time she had no awareness of any such details , though her senses missed none of them .
10 But at the time he was glad to leave .
11 Lewis treasured this conversation in after years , but at the time he found it disconcerting and annoying .
12 But at the time he had no one with the expertise to guide him , and was very easily influenced by the persuasive arguments of the last person he spoke to on any given subject .
13 By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors .
16 I love Lucy , but at the time he was more important to me than she was , in one sense .
17 Later , when lucidity returned to him , the recollection of that made him blush and cringe , but at the time he did not care .
18 ‘ They 're divorced now , apparently , and Paul 's married to someone else , but at the time he was going to divorce Sonia and marry me .
19 And I do n't know how , what 's happened about it now but at the time he was still having to pay for it
20 But at the time I took her , the bushes had grown across the path , and we got stuck , with her widow 's weeds entangled in branches and thorns until she could move no more .
21 But at the time I do n't think Kylie or anybody else had any idea of the phenomenal success she would have .
22 But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. ,
23 But at the time I had not realised what it was .
24 I did n't consider the possibility of turning back to the runway behind me , but at the time I thought that a very low-level circuit to the left would bring me round for a landing on an adjacent runway .
25 But at the time I still saw him as all-powerful , especially sexually .
26 Of course they really were avoiding me , but at the time I thought it was true and it sounded great ! ’
27 He was a very tormented man , I know that now , but at the time I did n't understand it , and so it was a very tormented relationship .
28 I know now that owls are not at all like living cuddly toys , but at the time I wanted to reach out and cuddle them .
29 But at the time I was just hurt that I could n't wade out into the lake and save them .
30 But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe .
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