Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] at the time " in BNC.
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1 | So I drove up to Illinois , where Ray was living at the time , and got him to build me one . |
2 | I think if you saw what David did afterwards , he was obviously attracted to the one-man show that Tony Newley was doing at the time like , ‘ Stop The World ’ and things like that , and the lyrics appealed to him . |
3 | Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ? |
4 | The sort of modest suburban house which Mrs Moore was renting at the time could be purchased in those days for £850 or £1,000 . |
5 | Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master . |
6 | The supporting cast was made up of Sylvia Miles , Brenda Vaccaro , John McGiver , Barnard Hughes ( film debut ) , Ruth White and Jennifer Salt ( the screenwriter 's 25-year-old daughter with whom the divorced Voight was living at the time ) . |
7 | At the Ryecroft bail hostel in Gloucester , where Hagans was living at the time , another witness said Hagans had tried to sell him a wedding ring for ten pounds , and was wearing a gold chain necklace . |
8 | If I am not mistaken , Davis was fielding at the time of his injury , and while one must concede that the wearing of helmets by batsmen , though hideous , is permissible , their use in the field is surely unacceptable and should be banned . |
9 | Two weeks before the transfer deadline , and in a desperate bid to clinch Manchester United 's first Championship in 25 years , Ferguson made a call to David Pleat at Luton , where Chelsea striker Harford was playing at the time . |
10 | Reincarnation and re-creation would be crucial to The Waste Land where Buddhist ideas would have an important place and where various voices of the dead , from that of Dante to that of Mayne Reid , would play their part in a sort of literary metempsychosis , not entirely unlike that used by Joyce in Ulysses , which Eliot was reading at the time . |