Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |
| 3 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 4 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 5 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 7 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 8 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 9 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 10 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 11 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 12 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 13 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 14 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 15 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 16 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |