Example sentences of "at [adj] time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |
| 2 | At that time I had a small 8ft X 6ft ( 2.5m X 2m ) greenhouse in which I grew tomatoes and a small section was allocated to begonias . |
| 3 | My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror . |
| 4 | At that time I was still on good terms with the General Intendant and he said , ‘ you should come to the rehearsals ’ . |
| 5 | This was because at that time I could not find a Salome . |
| 6 | At that time I was very young and very anti-aristo . |
| 7 | At that time I summarised German Enigma decrypts for Churchill at Bletchley Park which have never been released to the public . |
| 8 | At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range . |
| 9 | At that time I was eyeballing distances and clubbing him with my two-clubs-stronger method . |
| 10 | At that time I used an 11ft rod with a test-curve of ¾lb and an all-through , very supple action . |
| 11 | At that time I should have considered a pint of milk and a loaf of bread a day paradise . |
| 12 | But above all , I needed something that at that time I was quite unable to put into words . |
| 13 | While in hospital I had mentioned to my surgeon that I intended to go to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre , although at that time I had not actually made up my mind . |
| 14 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 15 | In fact a lot was happening in my world , but at that time I was n't at all aware of it . |
| 16 | At that time I thought we were scraping the barrel . |
| 17 | At that time I was working for Hawker Siddeley Dynamics in Hatfield . |
| 18 | He does n't take rivalry with him off the competitive track , and at that time I considered him to be the Master with myself as the apprentice . |
| 19 | And at that time I rather fancied being involved in something with jazz-rock elements . |
| 20 | At that time I was afraid of such processes . |
| 21 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 22 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |
| 23 | At that time I could only eat alone . |
| 24 | At that time I did n't pause to wonder if he 'd realized exactly what he 'd taken on when he first became involved with Nigel 's funeral arrangements ; I did later , and often , with deep and loving gratitude . |
| 25 | Perhaps because I was involved with other things , perhaps because at that time I was still trying to find my feet as a bisexual and felt isolated by straight sisters and excluded by some Black lesbians . |
| 26 | At that time I had planned to acquire the Lightning with another well-known operator , who was at that time very active on the warbird scene . |
| 27 | Surely this must be one of the very first models here and at that time I never heard of anyone owning one ( it would have taken six weeks wages to pay for it ) . |
| 28 | IN mid-July 1991 training began in St. Just for any child under 16 who wanted to play rugby union — at that time I had no kit and no idea of how to run a junior/mini rugby club . |
| 29 | ‘ At that time I 'm usually taking the children to school . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |