Example sentences of "[conj] at [v-ing] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared with a lettuce , for example , our rose roots are going to work at a lower level , and at planting time are going to have to work and make fresh growth ( become established ) in that second spit region . |
| 2 | In Ancient Egypt , pig footprints were considered just the right depth for sowing corn , and at planting time , the farmer would walk behind a pig , dropping seeds in the impressions . |
| 3 | Almost every member of staff , including people who normally spend all day in the office , was involved in cutting raw squid and fish into slivers for the babies and at feeding time , every 4 hours day and night , each little bill had to be opened and the food introduced down the throat in the way the mother bird would have fed the chick . |
| 4 | She 's partial to a bone , or a even a bacon sandwich , and at feeding time she competes with the families puppies for food . |
| 5 | She 's partial to a bone , or a even a bacon sandwich , and at feeding time she competes with the families puppies for food . |
| 6 | The island has the greatest concentration of seabirds in the north-west and at nesting time they are numbered in tens of thousands in a variety of species — guillemot , razorbill , kittiwake , fulmar , puffin , herring gull and shag — creating a deafening cacophony of noise . |