Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release . |
| 3 | The two-parter was also fun as it gave all of us a chance to act in conflict and be a bit more expansive , because otherwise , if you think about it , all we were doing most of the time was feeding lines to other people . ’ |
| 4 | He could n't see what the men were doing most of the time , because they were either inside or hidden by buildings . |
| 5 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 7 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 8 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 11 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 12 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
| 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 . |
| 20 | She was panting hard by the time she saw the narrow white ribbon that was the road to Coton . |
| 21 | ‘ Because I 'll never cry for you again , ’ I said , which was a very false promise , because I was crying inside at the time , and only I know how much I cried for her later . |
| 22 | David Paul McKnight ( 27 ) , of Juniper Park was said by his solicitor at Craigavon Crown Court to be ‘ a virtual alcoholic ’ and was drinking heavily at the time of the offences on January 4 . |
| 23 | This time the flood tide of ‘ forward and backward Cs in which the French so much delight ’ was flowing inexplicably at a time when we and the French were fighting the Seven Years War and French fashions , like French bottle makers and garlic , were desperately unpopular . |
| 24 | The man , who 's in his forties , was working alone at the time . |