Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 2 | ‘ Country properties were not selling well at the time . |
| 3 | I understand that the signalling and axle counter system , which is used to detect the location of trains in the tunnel , was not working normally at the time . |
| 4 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 5 | Egypt is a very humbling place , with its larger-than-life statues and obelisks serenely standing since before the time of Christ , and the mammoth pyramids whose blocks of stone weigh up to forty tons each ; this is a land which inspires constant awe and disbelief . |