Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halliwell was cooking haddock at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I began playing guitar professionally when I was about 15 or 16 years old , and was recording albums by the time I was 17 . |
| 3 | I can only really remember one occasion when my husband knew that I was I was taking Pills at the time , I think I took about twenty eight in one night . |
| 4 | On the one hand , the Church of England had managed to insult and harass its lesbian and gay members ( it is not known how many left in disgust ) , and had helped to justify to the public the upsurge in homophobic discrimination and violence which was taking place at the time . |
| 5 | He was making the investitures in lieu of his mother who was touring Africa at the time . |
| 6 | The Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , who was visiting Washington at the time the invitations were sent out , reacted angrily , stating that a Dec. 4 starting date did not allow enough time for Israel to prepare . |
| 7 | Born in 1818 , son of a stonemason , Burnard was carving stone by the time he was twelve , making his own crude ‘ chisels ’ from nails ground down in sand from Dozmary Pool . |