Example sentences of "was [v-ing] on [prep] the time " in BNC.
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1 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
4 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
5 | 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 . |