Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 8 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 9 | 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 . |