Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressures of work and increasingly other competing commitments were squeezing out time for teaching . |
| 2 | He said arranging flowers and cleaning vases was carried out by crematorium staff and was becoming very time consuming . |
| 3 | no so it was saying how times have changed , but they used to be very , very stuck up and it showed some of the early programmes and how people used to talk , oh so frightfully posh and so frightfully gorgeous and the words , and , it 's rather pleasant is n't it , really rather nice |
| 4 | If I was learning about time , I was also learning about my legs . |
| 5 | Er no my Lord perhaps I was , I was thinking about time to let me just sort out |