Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So now and this is this one much like while I was taking time off |
| 2 | But sometimes there was an uneasy undercurrent to disturb the tranquillity — including , of course , the feeling that I was marking time while great and stirring events were in the offing — war , for instance . |
| 3 | I was marking time until something better came along |
| 4 | You do n't erm the other day I thought to myself I 'll walk up , see if that shop 's still there and by the time , you know er I was dreaming obviously , and I 'd walked by , I 'd got time actually , I was killing time so er I thought oh you silly I said er you 've still not er found out , so I went back and it is there but it 's not some , it 's not a shop |
| 5 | M. B. I am quite candidly of the opinion that I would have left the police out of a feeling of resentment because I was overlooked time and time again for inferior men . |
| 6 | And the fact that she was taking time off with her dyke lover offered more flexibility , more opportunities for invention . |
| 7 | She was wasting time . |
| 8 | She was wasting time here . |
| 9 | She had no evidence to connect the boy with Puddephat 's disappearance , and she was wasting time . |
| 10 | She was wasting time trying to rack her brains , and if there was one thing she hated doing , it was wasting time . |
| 11 | It was , as she was to say time and again , ‘ a true congregation of hearts and minds ’ . |
| 12 | She was forced time and again to face the fact that , for so many of those into whose care she was put , it was just a job . |
| 13 | She was doing time for several rather serious drug-related offences . |
| 14 | Some thought we were wasting time , ’ says Solowka . |
| 15 | And which we , we were n't granted the time off , we were granted time off without pay but not paid leave . |
| 16 | Well if we were granted time off without pay then , which is , this is a distinct possibility yeah , er would the respective unions present here be reimbursing their members for loss of earnings ? |
| 17 | It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War . |
| 18 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 19 | It was getting early evening now , it was getting time to eat . |
| 20 | Although Hope was the first sportsman to convey this view , it was replicated time and time again by black footballers , athletes and boxers . |
| 21 | She was wasting time trying to rack her brains , and if there was one thing she hated doing , it was wasting time . |
| 22 | Er there 's no doubt in my mind that it was efficient erm and it was , it was controlling time . |
| 23 | My stomach said it was eating time again . |
| 24 | He realized he was wasting time ; the past could wait , the future was running on a short time-fuse . |
| 25 | But on his last full campaigning day in Monklands East , a depressed part of west central Scotland badly hit by the collapse of traditional industries , he was making time for the locals he has represented — with a boundary change — since 1970 . |
| 26 | He abused his inheritance , behaved extravagantly , and nearly got his comeuppance from the weasels — a violent proletariat who squatted in his house while he was doing time for car theft . |
| 27 | He was doing time for debt , as I recall . |
| 28 | The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it . |