Example sentences of "at the time and " in BNC.
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| 31 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |
| 32 | Steve Douglas 's Fanzine ‘ Go for It ’ started this year , and from a piece of folded photocopied paper , it eventually went on to become a printed glossy skate mag covering much of the skate scene at the time and the next few years for which the Farnborough scene played a major part if not the main part . |
| 33 | The single-copy fallacy operates here strongly , for the only way to study the Convention is through copies in the ‘ real world ’ : that is copies obtained at the time and held since by those who attended or their heirs . |
| 34 | He requested that his parents and a very close friend of ours say goodbye to him , and that I 'd be in the room at the time and stay with him when they said goodbye . |
| 35 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 36 | Because Pliny the Elder had been so widely-esteemed , the historian Tacitus was anxious to find out more about the circumstances of his death , and about the eruption in general , so he asked Pliny 's nephew , who was seventeen at the time and survived the eruption , to provide him with details of what had happened . |
| 37 | ‘ I think they were quite serious about leaving us at the time and thought they would get an objective opinion from Langford . |
| 38 | It must be our favourite song at the time and ‘ Once More ’ was , but in retrospect , it is probably my least favourite single . |
| 39 | How well he is able to cope with the situation will depend partly on his age at the time and partly on how carefully the adults around him handle the situation . |
| 40 | But many more were needed , and in early January Coleridge set off to publicize the new venture on a tour of the Midlands , recording an eventful journey with comic gusto both in his letters at the time and almost twenty years later in the Biographia Literaria . |
| 41 | She was nearly 80 years old at the time and had been a devoted parent and strict catholic all her life . |
| 42 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 43 | I had blank sections under my topic headings on paper in which I wrote very brief notes at the time and these were expanded more fully immediately after the interviews while my memory was still fresh . |
| 44 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |
| 45 | The analyses of both Cockburn and Dearlove imply a relationship between business and local government which did not exist at the time and could not easily be generated , whatever the ambitions of civil servants in the departments of central government , or of individual chief executives . |
| 46 | He had been a successful prize fighter at the time and had the good sense to buy the Blue Boar from the proceeds of the noble art . |
| 47 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 48 | Perhaps knowing the likely outcome , New Scientist 's editor made a pathetic excuse about being in Canada at the time and dropped one of his old colleagues into — and swiftly out of — the balloon . |
| 49 | Handloom weaving was an important cottage industry at the time and Charles was sent to Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire to learn the trade ; that was why Robert Burns referred to him as ‘ Wabster ( weaver ) Charlie ’ in the poem Epistle to James Tennant . |
| 50 | He got off too lightly at the time and history has not brought his memory to full justice . |
| 51 | I looked at the time and saw that it was a new world record , so I thought that I , too , must have run fast . |
| 52 | ‘ Self-government ’ was thus conceived not as the inevitable prelude to letting India go , as it appeared at the time and has appeared since to eyes less clouded than Montagu 's by belief in the possibility of voluntary servitude , but as the natural means of keeping it . |
| 53 | We 'd have liked to try the LSE with Lowden 's new preamp system complete with volume and treble/bass controls on the upper bout , but none were available at the time and we 've had to make do with the non-controlled version . |
| 54 | We were playing three piece at the time and we thought , ‘ What are we going to do ? ’ |
| 55 | He began experimenting with other drugs in use at the time and , using his extensive knowledge of botany , he investigated the effects of a number of medicinal plants , both on himself and on a small circle of friends and pupils . |
| 56 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |
| 57 | I was painfully thin at the time and he commented , ‘ We could almost touch your shoulder-blades as you dashed past with plates of chips . ’ |
| 58 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 59 | She was exactly three months pregnant at the time and the shock caused her to miscarry . |
| 60 | Lowe happened to have a Manly Rugby Club official building his house at the time and the official acted as an intermediary between Lowe and Ofahengaue . |