Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the year of the first World Championships , and many of the big names in sprinting were biding their time . |
| 2 | The snow gave them proof of what they always feared : the winter-hungry foxes were biding their time , ready to raid any hen-house which remained unfastened at dusk . |
| 3 | The Mendozas , however , were biding their time . |
| 4 | And while they were biding their time over a game of backgammon down in the café , William used to wander through the silent , cluttered rooms where their investment languished , gathering dust . |
| 5 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 6 | You might think that Young and Helmholtz were wasting their time using psychophysical procedures when improvements in physiological techniques would allow direct measurements of this sort . |
| 7 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
| 8 | Now you see , i is n't is n't it remarkable that the Jehovah 's Witness tried to lead us astray , but the minute Christ came in they were wasting their time . |
| 9 | ‘ As a matter of fact , Nadine , you were wasting your time all along . |
| 10 | Once round the loch and they headed back for their car , muttering that we were wasting our time because there was not a single fish in the loch . |
| 11 | He was angry with those supporters who were wasting our time . ’ |
| 12 | And we found we just were were wasting our time . |
| 13 | And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage . |
| 14 | Now the cabinet makers were serving their time , an apprenticeship you say . |
| 15 | Authorities often had little idea how inspectors were spending their time , the commission reports . |
| 16 | If workers were spending their time in this way , they were not only exercising a leisure preference but were consuming a non-essential . |
| 17 | The difference was that these professionals were giving their time for free . |
| 18 | And while they were taking their time we argued about something else . |
| 19 | By the fourth day , the tentative consensus was that small , cheap works ( those under DM1000 ) were selling well , but that collectors — European , with a conspicuous absence of Americans — were taking their time over heftier purchases , and that the true bottom line would emerge after four to six weeks . |
| 20 | They were taking their time , as she coochy-cooed down at the gurgling little cutenesses . |
| 21 | Such links were part of a transformation which Eric Pawson has summed up : " many townspeople who at the start of the century had never , or rarely , seen a wheeled vehicle , were setting their time pieces by the arrival of the daily coach at its end " . |
| 22 | But what he 'd got to do was to plan his time , and work out his priorities , by distinguishing between those tasks that are urgent and those tasks that are important . |
| 23 | So he yawned , asked if Marcus was using his time in any particular way , looked at his watch . |
| 24 | Dorothy Hardisty had no doubt that she was wasting her time . |
| 25 | She began to feel that she was wasting her time and that he probably thought that she was mad . |
| 26 | But it quickly became apparent she was wasting her time . |
| 27 | Maudie Mycroft could see she was wasting her time seeking sympathy from the women and she picked up her shopping bag . |
| 28 | She spent several minutes crawling on her hands and knees , rubbing the flat of her palm across the pile of the carpet to locate the wretched ring , before the truth occurred to her and she knew that she was wasting her time . |
| 29 | She was wasting her time ; without knowing exactly where it had been lying , there was no means of identifying the spot from where it had fallen . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps I wanted to convince her that I had found a replacement for her and she was wasting her time in trying to fan burned-out ashes to life . ’ |