Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | By wrecking a motion at the time , rightly or wrongly placed and once again I see this afternoon we 've got a similar motion on the table . |
| 2 | Opening a brewery at a time when Britain 's drinkers are supping less beer than they used to might not seem like a good idea . |
| 3 | But there was to be no resting , particularly with Jeffrey Archer keeping an eye on the time . |
| 4 | Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop . |
| 5 | Tracy was keeping an eye on the time all the time , they did n't rehearse it , none at all . |
| 6 | But they are gaining an inch at a time , thought Floy , in horror ; they are stretching muscle and flesh . |
| 7 | He had three pieces of paper in front of him and was writing a line at a time on each — a different line on different aspects of his recent battle with lung cancer , which , however , he stated was now completely cured . |
| 8 | Day works is a means of paying a contractor on a time and materials basis for incidental work to the contract to comply with the engineer 's instructions , with additions for overheads and profit . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're building a chain at a time when you can do good deals on the rent , ’ said Mr Chapman . |
| 10 | This rather skeletal account of the phenomenon of hysteresis , suggesting a connection between the time paths of the actual and the equilibrium unemployment rates , needs to be substantially fleshed out . |
| 11 | It takes a fresh look at the key points of BMS history by using a missionary as a time traveller . |
| 12 | Mrs Weaver , who was wearing a helmet at the time of the fall , was pronounced dead at the scene . |
| 13 | On I8 April 1983 the American Embassy in Beirut was car-bombed and collapsed like a pack of cards , sixty-three employees , including a team of senior CIA agents holding a meeting at the time were killed . |
| 14 | Det Con Steve Roberts added : ‘ It is unusual to say the least , the fact that one of these women was holding a baby at the time . ’ |
| 15 | Det Con Steve Roberts added : ‘ It is unusual to say the least , the fact that one of these women was holding a baby at the time . ’ |
| 16 | I was expecting a baby at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a derby which City did not want to lose and we were left to make the running a lot of the time . |
| 18 | They were having a mission at the time and the preacher told Mother that it would have done her far more good to go to chapel than knit a quilt . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , to tell the truth , John , I am having a devil of a time with a contract in Cirencester . |
| 20 | She 'd been on the floor for nearly every dance , and was having a whale of a time . |
| 21 | It bounces along wonderfully , with Caine obviously having a whale of a time , and is ideal kiddies ' Christmas fare . |
| 22 | But by then various other children were misbehaving too , so I sent them out , and suddenly I realized that half of my class was outside the door having a whale of a time ! |
| 23 | Superconductor are wonderfully stupid and noisy , everybody playing a different tune and having a whale of a time whilst the singer gargles disinfectant . |
| 24 | Media people , people from the advertising company Andy has just left , a few politicians — mostly Tory or Social Democrats though there are a couple of Labour guys — bankers , lawyers , business advisers , investment experts , actors , TV people — at least one film crew , though their lights are switched off for now — various other city types , a scattering of people who are , well , just professionally famous , and the remainder seemingly either part of some enormous floating meta-party or hired from some agency to impersonate people having a whale of a time : Rent-a-Hoot or something similar . |
| 25 | We thought that was the last we 'd see of him … but Ian reappeared as we lost height … and he was clearly having a whale of a time … |
| 26 | They know their stuff inside out , but most importantly they also look like they are having a whale of a time . |
| 27 | Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ? |
| 28 | Oh they 've heard from Gav well she phoned Gavin yesterday apparently and he seems to be having a whale of a time . |
| 29 | We 're having a whirl of a time ! |
| 30 | I was having a War at the time — the Mussels against the Dead Flies I think it was — and while I was in the library poring over the book and trying to keep my eyes open , soaking up all those damn silly Imperial measurements , the wind would be blowing my fly armies over half the island and the sea would first sink the mussel shells in their high pools and then cover them with sand . |