Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 2 | Accordingly , without intercepting their telephone communications we obtained a fair amount of information about their attitudes on quite a wide range of topics that were concerning C.N.D. at the time . |
| 3 | The lads were having lunch at the time and when ‘ Jacki ’ leaned over to shake hands with Peter Grant , his tie fell into a bowl of soup . |
| 4 | Conversely slightly more of the action sample were receiving meals-on-wheels by the time of the second assessment but this is probably because more of the control sample were out receiving day care and therefore were less likely to require them . |
| 5 | Halliwell was cooking haddock at the time . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I began playing guitar professionally when I was about 15 or 16 years old , and was recording albums by the time I was 17 . |
| 7 | I can only really remember one occasion when my husband knew that I was I was taking Pills at the time , I think I took about twenty eight in one night . |
| 8 | On the one hand , the Church of England had managed to insult and harass its lesbian and gay members ( it is not known how many left in disgust ) , and had helped to justify to the public the upsurge in homophobic discrimination and violence which was taking place at the time . |
| 9 | He was making the investitures in lieu of his mother who was touring Africa at the time . |
| 10 | The Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , who was visiting Washington at the time the invitations were sent out , reacted angrily , stating that a Dec. 4 starting date did not allow enough time for Israel to prepare . |
| 11 | Born in 1818 , son of a stonemason , Burnard was carving stone by the time he was twelve , making his own crude ‘ chisels ’ from nails ground down in sand from Dozmary Pool . |