Example sentences of "[pron] were [v-ing] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Most of the survivors were ones who were working at the time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You were looking at the time , but it did n't come up , I mean . |
| 5 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |
| 6 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 7 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 8 | ‘ This bears out what we were saying at the time . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |