Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 4 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 5 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 6 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 9 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 10 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 13 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
| 16 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 17 | It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces . |
| 18 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
| 19 | And I was working upstairs in er what 's called the gascon module , Which was shut down at the time for repair work and things like that . |