Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were I was I was patrolling at the time , with me partner . |
| 2 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , I think I 've forgotten what I was thinking at the time , erm |
| 4 | Only I was passing at the time . |
| 5 | Later that evening , going on my farewell walk round Cuzco , I fought to be positive , talking to myself like a character in a novel I was reading at the time , David Copperfield 's aunt . |
| 6 | On the other hand , although I was exhausted by the time I arrived in Sydney , having lost the equivalent of two nights ' sleep , it was not unproductive in terms of collecting tennis news . |
| 7 | I was exhausted by the time that ‘ An Evening without John McCarthy ’ arrived , but the venue , the Camden Palace , was n't far from my flat and , prompted by nerves , I turned up early , about an hour before things were due to begin . |
| 8 | No , I do n't know what it , he did n't bang on the doors , I was hoovering at the time Is that nice ? |
| 9 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 10 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 11 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 12 | ‘ Now I sing it and listen to the words again and appreciate more than ever what I was feeling at the time , ’ he told friends . |
| 13 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 14 | He watched me , smiling but sharp , and for some reason — for no reason — I was reminded of a time at school when I had tried to make one friend betray another , and failed . |
| 15 | Dear Guitarist Catching Nirvana 's ‘ performance ’ on the recent MTV Video Music Awards I was reminded of the time when , as a youngster , the guitar-smashing exploits of my heroes — the likes of Townshend and Hendrix — left a bad taste in my mouth . |
| 16 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |