Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me the most dangerous aspect of the job has been not so much the very real dangers in the field as the psychological vertigo of alternating for months at a time between the utter extremes of the planet ; from the film markets of California 's Hollywood Hills , where I rented an A-frame , to the remotest jungles of the East . |
| 2 | Sister Catherine Dunne , a nun of the Sisters of Mercy Order , who was driving towards Armagh at the time , was also killed in the explosion and her passenger , a social worker , was seriously injured . |
| 3 | He had been appearing on television at the time . |
| 4 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 5 | He was on the run for forty-three days , sheltering for part of the time in a cornfield , being fed occasionally by sympathetic French farmers , but was hunted down and sent to captivity in Belgium . |
| 6 | Basing her analysis on data from a large-scale , representative sample of women and men at the age of 23 , she shows that 16 per cent of single working-class men and 22 per cent of single working-class women were living with kin at the time of the survey . |
| 7 | Sara 's legs were trembling with exhaustion by the time she reached the stables . |
| 8 | He was living in Redruth at the time and the long drive up to the parsonage seemed a very good place for the test . |
| 9 | As a result , Mr Vafa , who was living in France at the time , says that allegations of violence made against him by his former wife and her family went unchallenged and resulted in the interdict preventing him from molesting and attacking his wife or members of her family . |
| 10 | We were living in Surrey at the time and I was sharing a double bed with my brother , who 's five years older than me . |
| 11 | Anyway , I was living in Boston at the time , but I was in a studio in Oslo and saw a Lexicon there , noticed that the company was in Boston and said , ‘ Can you put it on the guitar and see what it sounds like ? ’ |
| 12 | The book 's chief interest lies in the fact that Caroline Capel was a sister of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey and that she and her family , for financial reasons , were living in Brussels at the time of Waterloo . |
| 13 | They yeah we used to call in Tex and he , he could n't believe that there were old people living in Walsall at the time in this country the size of England , and people living in Walsall that had never seen the sea in their lives , and this guy coming from America could n't believe this . |
| 14 | Ceauşescu was hunting in Nigeria at the time and insisted on playing down the impact of the earthquake even before he returned . |
| 15 | According to reports at the time , McAvennie and a couple of unnamed cohorts left the club 's annual Christmas dinner and tried to gatecrash a private party being held in the hotel by West Ham 's commercial manager Brian Blower . |
| 16 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 17 | As are considerations that go a step beyond them , such as a policeman 's attitude to his wife and family ( he is stopped from going off duty at the time his wife expects : what will be her reaction ? ) or an unmarried policeman 's love life , or for that matter the love life of a policeman who is cheating on his wife . |
| 18 | ‘ I was teaching at MexTech at the time . |
| 19 | Persistent truants , those truanting for weeks at a time , were seen as posing intractable problems for schools . |
| 20 | They have no idea what Dr Puddephat was doing in France at the time of his death . |
| 21 | The people , on the other hand , are suffering from famine at a time when the patricians are hoarding the grain-harvest but are themselves easily manipulated by the Tribunes . |
| 22 | The Republicans were fortunate in coming to power at a time of growing prosperity . |
| 23 | There was a shadow hanging over Bourn for a time and nothing was fun any more . |
| 24 | The R Y A beginner 's course has certainly got Suzanne here sailing with confidence in no time at all . |
| 25 | We soon learned to give animals the right of way in the swamps , sitting for hours at a time in the dugout , watching elephants plod by . |
| 26 | He had travelled to France , arriving in Paris at the time of the revolution . |
| 27 | She was studying in Florence at the time when she spotted a trend among Florentine women for a drawstring leather duffel bag . |
| 28 | We can not sleep at the new night time , we feel tired during the daytime ( at a time corresponding to night in the time zone we have just left ) , and our appetite is upset . |
| 29 | I was lying there thinking about fellatio at the time . |
| 30 | Why was she thinking about Arianna at a time like this ? |