Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun sg] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not seeing the significance at the time of the two articles , or of the prong ( pitchfork ) and shovel that followed them , the two boys finished their frugal breakfast and set out upon their chores . |
| 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 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 4 | Between Sutton and Wallington , the route now proposed was to avoid the centre of Carshalton , by following new roads to the south , some of which were not yet constructed ; although this routing was opposed by some frontagers in Sutton , the company was assured the co-operation of the Carshalton Park Estate Company , who were developing the area at the time . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) A notice under this subsection shall give such information identifying or assisting in the identification of the person who committed the act or default or gave the information as is in the possession of the person serving the notice at the time he serves it . |
| 6 | Although supporting the Act at the time of its enactment , the Labour Party 's education spokesman , Neil Kinnock , highlighted lack of resources as likely to be the major impediment to the legislation 's success . |
| 7 | Mrs Weaver , who was wearing a helmet at the time of the fall , was pronounced dead at the scene . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Actually , it was n't that hard to miss them , because the real blues players were just getting no exposure at the time . |
| 12 | I was expecting a baby at the time . |
| 13 | The Shurmur family kept the mill up to 1800 , when a descendant of Thomas Shurmur , who was running the mill at the time , was declared bankrupt . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 17 | If the mother is suffering from untreated gonorrhoea involving the cervix at the time of birth , then the baby will come into contact with secretions containing gonococci in its passage through the birth canal . |
| 18 | The police officer had him handcuffed to him and so was unable to make a contemporaneous note of the conversation until he reached the police station ( though he did not record the reason for not making the note at the time , nor the time when the note was made ) . |
| 19 | I do not say that people ’ have it taken out of them ’ for making a complaint at the time when that complaint is made , but there may be a problem the next time something happens . |
| 20 | Jack Cunningham , MP , who was touring the site at the time , was not told of the incident . |
| 21 | These patients were receiving no treatment at the time of mucosal biopsy . |
| 22 | Well it was last night , I fell asleep , I was watching a film at the time . |
| 23 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |