Example sentences of "did [prep] the time " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Part of his problem was that he was just doing what everybody else did at the time , and it killed him . |
2 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
3 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
4 | The question is : In saying ‘ I meant … ’ , when one has been misunderstood , is one saying something about something one did at the time of saying , ‘ Come here ’ or ‘ Go to the bank ’ ? |
5 | But if , in saying ‘ I meant … ’ , one is not saying something about something one did at the time of saying , ‘ Come here ’ or ‘ Go to the bank ’ , what is one saying ? |
6 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
7 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
8 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
9 | Purporting to describe the end of the world ( ‘ 1984 ’ ) , one of the track titles , was the chosen dat ) and sprawling wildly across musical styles , some might call this album preposterous ( several did at the time ) . |
10 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |
11 | It 's usually er er males that go to wars rather than females , and you can waste them on a vast scale like we did at the time of the first world war and , and find virtually no effect on your population . |
12 | And the whole book is really about er the Versailles conference in a way , is n't it , and about why he behaved the way he did at the time . |
13 | Purporting to describe the end of the world ( ‘ 1984 ’ ) , one of the track titles , was the chosen dat ) and sprawling wildly across musical styles , some might call this album preposterous ( several did at the time ) . |
14 | Erm the effect was that that er on on on on the assessment we did at the time , that it would n't have affected flows on the A sixty one in the centre of Harrogate . |
15 | I did at the time erm I no longer am authorised to carry . |