Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] at [art] 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 | You see , she was wandering at the time . ’ |
| 8 | Caron wrote it in the aftermath of the '92 riots in LA where she was living at the time . |
| 9 | He became very confused and it was suggested that the squadron would like something which she was wearing at the time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The choices she faces are the choices that India itself was making at the time . ’ |
| 12 | Ethiopia 's last bad drought was in 1972 , when perhaps 200 000 died ( no one was counting at the time ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was raining at the time . |
| 15 | Sir James was reported as having called for a return of capital punishment , launched an attack on the parole system , favoured the abolition of the right to silence for accused persons , referred to a black person as a ‘ nig-nog ’ , and made a remark about ‘ murderous Sikhs ’ involved in a case he was hearing at the time . |
| 16 | Franco put his in his mouth and chewed it up , he was teething at the time . |
| 17 | Mind you , I was pretty out of order at some of his famous parties , out-drinking George Brown and all those Labour ministers that he was courting at the time . ’ |
| 18 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 19 | Indeed , he was talking at the time about the possibility of him returning to Europe a few days later with Sampras for the Davis Cup final . |
| 20 | CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ . |
| 21 | There 'll be twenty people at least who could swear he was working at the time . |
| 22 | And in the week , I do n't think he was working at the time , but on a Sunday morning he 'd walk out of that terrace house and er he 'd be immaculate , absolutely . |
| 23 | In my experience , the only occasions when I have stalled unexpectedly and known what was happening at the time , have been in very fierce stubble fires and dust devils . |
| 24 | We did n't know what was happening at the time , we thought he was choking . |
| 25 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 26 | We all knew each other anyway — I 've known Si the bass player and Chris the drummer for years — but it was one of those places where everyone was going at the time , where you could meet other musicians and bounce some ideas around . |