Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you might say , and I councillor did say in fact that of course we would be most unfair in the way that we did this because to quote from him er we were giving no time , no time for discussion , no time for evaluation no time . |
| 2 | ( A decade later , Johnson , on a journey to Oxford , sat in the stage-coach beside a Mrs Beresford and her daughter ; the girl was passing the time in knotting , a kind of tatting , in which coloured threads are knitted into decorative knots . |
| 3 | It was through school generally and school teachers in particular that his interest was aroused and : ‘ When I was approaching the time to leave school , my interest was in athletics ; I either wanted to join the army as a PE instructor or I thought about taking a course in physical education . ’ |
| 4 | And he was having the time of his life . |
| 5 | The difficulty was finding a time to instruct them . |
| 6 | I said well you see I was making a time machine and all I needed was one more microchip and what was sitting right up under my nose ? |