Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun sg] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeping a note of the times the child goes to bed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But there was to be no resting , particularly with Jeffrey Archer keeping an eye on the time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tracy was keeping an eye on the time all the time , they did n't rehearse it , none at all . |
| 7 | But they are gaining an inch at a time , thought Floy , in horror ; they are stretching muscle and flesh . |
| 8 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're building a chain at a time when you can do good deals on the rent , ’ said Mr Chapman . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It takes a fresh look at the key points of BMS history by using a missionary as a time traveller . |
| 14 | Mrs Weaver , who was wearing a helmet at the time of the fall , was pronounced dead at the scene . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | I was expecting a baby at the time . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a derby which City did not want to lose and we were left to make the running a lot of the time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , to tell the truth , John , I am having a devil of a time with a contract in Cirencester . |
| 22 | She 'd been on the floor for nearly every dance , and was having a whale of a time . |
| 23 | It bounces along wonderfully , with Caine obviously having a whale of a time , and is ideal kiddies ' Christmas fare . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | Superconductor are wonderfully stupid and noisy , everybody playing a different tune and having a whale of a time whilst the singer gargles disinfectant . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | They know their stuff inside out , but most importantly they also look like they are having a whale of a time . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | Oh they 've heard from Gav well she phoned Gavin yesterday apparently and he seems to be having a whale of a time . |