Example sentences of "at the time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passengers at the time amounted to several thousands on the SVR Gala , most of whom were at the northern Bridgnorth end of the line , enjoying rides behind 56014 and 59101 which was earlier named ‘ Village of Whatley ’ . |
| 2 | Like it or not , democracy ( which at the time meant votes for male workers ) gradually came to be seen as inevitable . |
| 3 | I was cycling up the hill at the time to go on duty , and I nearly fell off my bike in my certainty that there was going to be a nasty accident . |
| 4 | I first saw Genesis around 1973 and at the time knew their music very well . |
| 5 | His friends at the time knew better , especially the seemingly laid-back J Mascis , who could n't eject him from the group on a face-to-face basis . |
| 6 | Few commentators at the time saw in the conference the beginnings of the Pacific age . |
| 7 | There was a fighter at the time called Joe ‘ Kid ’ Bassey and people used to think we were related . |
| 8 | There was another fellow living at Ralph 's at the time called Kenny Bell , who said , ‘ I 'm sorry , you ca n't come in ’ . |
| 9 | It will always be the case that it would have been better for one of the counterparties not to have taken out the forward contract but to have waited and transacted in the spot or cash market at the time called for delivery . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Only they would have possessed the necessary authority and material wealth at the time to take prime land — the site of a major trading warehouse — and transform it into a dog cemetery . |
| 12 | Obviously uncertain as to his own musical direction , Moore recorded with Lizzy , but was not a full-time member of the band , which at the time featured Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham . |
| 13 | He 'd asked her to wait for him , and although she 'd been too angry at the time to say that she would , she had nevertheless avoided marriage to anyone else despite the many proposals she 'd had . |
| 14 | The graph plots the slope of the rising phase of the evoked response ( population e.p.s.p. ) , recorded from the cell body region in response to constant test stimuli , for 1h before and 3h following a tetanus ( 250Hz , 200ms ) , delivered at the time indicated by the arrow . |
| 15 | It was the Anglo-Saxons who adapted the pagan marking of bread with a cross ( which at the time represented the four seasons ) into the Christian symbol for the crucifix . |
| 16 | One could either argue that the lack of action required by the subject at the time prevented any memories from being encoded , or that the lack of aspects of the situation which were specific to that particular drive made it extremely difficult to actually retrieve a memory for it . |
| 17 | Jack was standing beside her at the time filling in notes , and she quickly jotted down the address and the scant details they were offered , and turned to him . |
| 18 | He did n't know what Lewis meant about someone looking after the house but no doubt he , Adam , had at the time concocted some tale to keep his father quiet , to keep him away even . |
| 19 | The Piper debts were paid in full , even although a severe fall in land values at the time caused his properties and other holdings to be sold for rock-bottom sums . |
| 20 | How how did the newspapers at the time respond to the Ge General Strike ? |
| 21 | The findings drew attention to the contrast between the teacher-initiated models of ‘ group work ’ which at the time offered the only practical insights and guidance available in the literature ( e.g. Barnes and Todd 1977 , Tann 1981 , Biott and Clough 1983 , Slavin 1983 , Johnson et al . |
| 22 | No one however at the time questioned why it was necessary to do that . |
| 23 | No one however at the time questioned why it was necessary to do that . |
| 24 | One Windscale worker who lived in Seascale at the time said he recorded radioactive contamination on his son 's shoes which was almost six times the level used to signify a hazard inside his laboratory . |
| 25 | ‘ The referee at the time said Southall was denying a goalscoring opportunity . |
| 26 | A security man who worked at Balfour 's Croydon HQ at the time said : ‘ I know it did happen . ’ |
| 27 | A great many Greek politicians and officials who at the time said privately that they thought the thing was a nonsense heard themselves publicly using arguments which did not improve Greece 's reputation for honest debate . |
| 28 | Entomologists at the time said that such an idea was ridiculous . |
| 29 | But nasty rumours at the time said she could have been helped in . |
| 30 | It was the kind of thing that children at the time said constantly in the playground . |