Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade .
2 And who can say what will be going on by the time you read these words ?
3 ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time .
4 All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it .
5 Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time .
6 I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards .
7 ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time .
8 Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time .
9 I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does .
10 I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo .
11 Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time .
12 I only explained I was listening in at the time .
13 It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing .
14 To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time .
15 ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that .
16 Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ?
17 Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time .
18 ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively .
19 I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop .
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