Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] at the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both authors appear to belittle the great range of plants that were living at the times of their animals and the ways in which these plants were constantly evolving and migrating . |
| 2 | Security and crowd control video cameras were recording at the time of Saturday 's attack , but cut out when the fire blew the electricity supply . |
| 3 | Now police are examining video tapes from cameras used for crowd control and security , which it is believed were recording at the time of the attack . |
| 4 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 5 | This is a much larger proportion than that found among teenage women , where only about 1 in 3 were cohabiting at the time of the birth . |
| 6 | Gene Miles , who along with Dean Bell , has provided the solidity for Wigan to batter opponents into submission so often this season , explained the significance of the December get-together : ‘ The injuries were clearing at the time of the team meeting and we put everything into winning games around Christmas and New Year . |
| 7 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
| 8 | In each case the sentence is true if the person who spoke was skipping at the time of the utterance . |
| 9 | If I am not mistaken , Davis was fielding at the time of his injury , and while one must concede that the wearing of helmets by batsmen , though hideous , is permissible , their use in the field is surely unacceptable and should be banned . |
| 10 | I think if you saw what David did afterwards , he was obviously attracted to the one-man show that Tony Newley was doing at the time like , ‘ Stop The World ’ and things like that , and the lyrics appealed to him . |
| 11 | They had chosen one of the coldest Decembers ever recorded in England to make their journey , and Coleridge , plagued once more with neuralgia and illness , was suffering at the time from a face ‘ monstrously swoln ’ . |
| 12 | Indeed , he was talking at the time about the possibility of him returning to Europe a few days later with Sampras for the Davis Cup final . |
| 13 | CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ . |