Example sentences of "at the time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting . |
| 2 | A total of 478 students were arrested at the time and held for several days . |
| 3 | The lads were having lunch at the time and when ‘ Jacki ’ leaned over to shake hands with Peter Grant , his tie fell into a bowl of soup . |
| 4 | They were known to our predecessors at the time and were expounded by them as clearly then as we can demonstrate them now ; for the reasons were implicit in the facts of the world in 1900 . |
| 5 | I could n't explain it very well at the time and I still ca n't . |
| 6 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 7 | He stayed in digs in a colliery village at the time and found it equally possible to integrate easily into the local community . |
| 8 | The man who offered this piece of advice turned out to be Lord Cole , who was chairman of Unilever at the time and went on to be chairman of Rolls-Royce and several other major companies . |
| 9 | ‘ Often they 'll kill a couple of lambs , take one at the time and leave one to be picked up later , ’ he explained . |
| 10 | In truth , he was very much smitten by Sarah at the time and he would scarcely have noticed the rather nondescript little sister who fell passionately in love that day . |
| 11 | The word Freedom was being bandied about a lot at the time and meant many different things . |
| 12 | David had a couple of records out at the time and he sang all his songs in the show that we did . |
| 13 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 14 | Angie was very loud at the time and being really crazy , so we all got on famously . |
| 15 | He still had n't had any chart hits at the time and in fact did n't until ‘ Fame ’ . |
| 16 | He was not a big star at the time and it was just a good song . |
| 17 | Unfortunately his foot was in it at the time and I slammed it , at which point he pulled out a badge and said he was a cop . |
| 18 | Mark had been twelve at the time and beset by emotional turmoil . |
| 19 | He preferred the sort of woman who put her foot in it with grammar and things ; that way he could feel superior by correcting her at the time and having a laugh at her expense later with his male colleagues . |
| 20 | Although the eugenic risk ( that the child of an incestuous relationship between father — daughter or brother — sister will have congenital defects ) was known at the time and was probably a factor , most of the arguments of the reformers were based on the protection of children from sexual exploitation . |
| 21 | This chapter investigates how that world appeared to the players and the lookers on , both at the time and afterwards . |
| 22 | She had never questioned his facts ; he had been ten or twelve at the time and she had confidently assumed that he knew what he was talking about . |
| 23 | ‘ We felt we were creating the antinuclear movement from scratch , says Pete Roche , now an editor of SCRAM 's bi-monthly Safe Energy Journal , first published at the time and an invaluable guide to the growth of opposition . |
| 24 | ( 22 November 1780 ) The tenor , Anton Raaff , who was singing the title role , caused difficulties for different reasons — he was 65 at the time and his voice was past its best : |
| 25 | I was n't there at the time and I 'm damned if they 're going to top me for your brothers . |
| 26 | They were exotic , impoverished days for Nicholson and , above all , big experiences for the boy from Neptune who had by now left the protective custody of his sister/mother and was sharing an apartment with one of a group of friends who he met at the time and with whom he remained close when he became well known . |
| 27 | I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later . |
| 28 | ‘ I was shooting a lot of travel features at the time and had done a few aerials just to try something new . |
| 29 | But then there is one lounge suit , passed on to me in 1931 or 1932 by Sir Edward Blair — practically brand new at the time and almost a perfect fit — which might well be appropriate for evenings in the lounge or dining room of any guest houses where I might lodge . |
| 30 | One can of course see Colonel Airey 's point , although the fact remains that his Commando was unemployed at the time and Stirling was about to be required to undertake an important series of raids . |