Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
2 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
3 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
6 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
7 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
8 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
11 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
14 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
15 | She was panting hard by the time she saw the narrow white ribbon that was the road to Coton . |
16 | ‘ Because I 'll never cry for you again , ’ I said , which was a very false promise , because I was crying inside at the time , and only I know how much I cried for her later . |
17 | David Paul McKnight ( 27 ) , of Juniper Park was said by his solicitor at Craigavon Crown Court to be ‘ a virtual alcoholic ’ and was drinking heavily at the time of the offences on January 4 . |
18 | The man , who 's in his forties , was working alone at the time . |