Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | He could n't see what the men were doing most of the time , because they were either inside or hidden by buildings . |
| 4 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 6 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 7 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 10 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 15 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She was panting hard by the time she saw the narrow white ribbon that was the road to Coton . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The man , who 's in his forties , was working alone at the time . |