Example sentences of "[pron] be [v-ing] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were I was I was patrolling at the time , with me partner . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry , I think I 've forgotten what I was thinking at the time , erm |
| 3 | Only I was passing at the time . |
| 4 | Later that evening , going on my farewell walk round Cuzco , I fought to be positive , talking to myself like a character in a novel I was reading at the time , David Copperfield 's aunt . |
| 5 | No , I do n't know what it , he did n't bang on the doors , I was hoovering at the time Is that nice ? |
| 6 | ‘ Now I sing it and listen to the words again and appreciate more than ever what I was feeling at the time , ’ he told friends . |
| 7 | Under the Administration of justice Act 1982 , where a will contains a devise or bequest to a child or remoter descendant of the testator , and the intended beneficiary dies before the testator , leaving issue who are living at the time of the testator 's death , then , unless a contrary intention appears in the will , the devise or bequest passes to the issue living at the testator 's death . |
| 8 | When you feel like ‘ beating yourself up ’ , observe how you are acting at the time . |
| 9 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
| 10 | And th the stories that you read are all , all for children are they ones that you 're reading from a book , or are they ones that you 're inventing at the time , or what ? |
| 11 | Oh in fact you 're not even you could never have to go back to that same place but depends on where what you 're doing at the time that assignment comes up for reselling . |
| 12 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 13 | Most of the survivors were ones who were working at the time . |
| 14 | In those days there was n't a great deal of of mining , I mean was n't open , and er there was a tremendous amount , well there 's a fair amount of of traffic agricultural traffic , and I mean one had to accept that virtually everything came in , all coal , road stone , erm goods required er for well 's who were going at the time , they er they used the railway . |
| 15 | You were looking at the time , but it did n't come up , I mean . |
| 16 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |
| 17 | You see , she was wandering at the time . ’ |
| 18 | Caron wrote it in the aftermath of the '92 riots in LA where she was living at the time . |
| 19 | He became very confused and it was suggested that the squadron would like something which she was wearing at the time . |
| 20 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 21 | The choices she faces are the choices that India itself was making at the time . ’ |
| 22 | WHY Do we drink coffee ? one answer is to keep us interested in what we are doing at the time — typing , say , or repairing a car . |
| 23 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 24 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 25 | ‘ This bears out what we were saying at the time . ’ |
| 26 | Ethiopia 's last bad drought was in 1972 , when perhaps 200 000 died ( no one was counting at the time ) . |
| 27 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 28 | It 's great for people like me who do research into politics and literature because you know , Johnson 's like a key to ev whatever he 's thinking at the time . |
| 29 | It all depends what he 's writing at the time . ’ |
| 30 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |