Example sentences of "same time he [was/were] " in BNC.
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1 | But at the same time he was both transmitter and receiver , so to speak . |
2 | He was quite at home talking about Eisenstein or Brecht , Shakespeare or Godard , but at the same time he was completely rooted in the specificity of Bengal , its history , its literature and its culture . |
3 | They 'd told her , on no account was he to be allowed to cry for a feed , but that at the same time he was n't to be put to the breast unless he really wanted to . |
4 | At the same time he was equally concerned that the dancing itself should be interesting . |
5 | As a young man , Sewell appeared to some observers to be eccentric and reserved , but at the same time he was looked upon as a steady , attentive and exemplary apprentice . |
6 | At the same time he was given a course of anti-fungal drugs . |
7 | ‘ Not only was he doing all that , but at the same time he was taking his firm into the merger with Peats . |
8 | He was pretending that the errand was a nuisance , though at the same time he was grinning with pleasure at the thought of taking McIllvanney 's brand new sportsboat to sea . |
9 | The incongruity was that at the same time he was convinced of retribution in this world . |
10 | Yet at the same time he was edging back from his long concern with heroic valour , or hobbitic moral courage . |
11 | At the same time he was pursuing his preference for bilateral meetings : these culminated during the first two months of 1961 with his meeting first with the British premier , Harold Macmillan , and then with Konrad Adenauer . |
12 | He examined her carapace , her tough coiled-spring legs ; and knew that he was examining Meh'Lindi intimately , yet at the same time he was n't . |
13 | At the same time he was turned down by both the Civil Service and the Foreign Office . |
14 | At the same time he was prone to a feeling of guilt that his art was not what it ought to be . |
15 | At the same time he was anxious to see his first raven , for he remembered Woil saying that the ravens started ‘ where the mountains start , and their range spreads ever northwards to the very heart of eagle and buzzard country ’ . |
16 | At the same time he was aware that he was growing hard to understand and that he must have fallen into spitting , because the corset buyer opposite was glaring at him and wiping her face with a lace handkerchief . |
17 | At the same time he was responsible for many improvements , taking out seven patents up to 1851 for cotton spinning and several thereafter for power-loom weaving . |
18 | At the same time he was engaged with his brother Ralph in soap-boiling in London , and dealt in tallow , potash , soap-ash , and oil . |
19 | At the same time he was a great lord . |
20 | Her remarks confused Lucien , but at the same time he was very interested in what she had to say . |
21 | At the same time he was puzzled by her silence , after such friendliness . |
22 | At the same time he was conscious of a deep and mysterious horror deep inside him . |
23 | At the same time he was rightly sceptical of the readiness of the American taxpayer to foot the bill once the war was over . |
24 | At the same time he was urging the Americans to negotiate . |
25 | At the same time he was busy courting his supporters amongst the Country Tories by playing on the theme of the " Church in Danger " , and his strategy appears to have been to unite the various dissident Tories behind him in order to oust Oxford from power , and then try to ensure that Tory political dominance was so unchallengeable that when George I became King he would be forced to work with them . |
26 | There was no fire and I had switched off long before the port wing touched the ground , I saw him hare across the airfield diagonally opposed to the direction of the hangar , and indeed the aircraft , and at the same time he was haring away towards Findhorn . |
27 | Eddie 's betrayal of his cousins is also revenge — he was doing it to prevent Rodolpho marrying Catherine primarily , but at the same time he was getting revenge for all the problems that his cousins had caused him , especially regarding Catherine . |