Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was blinded What time are we gon na chuck them out tonight ? |
| 2 | However , I was wasting my time — my gaze slid across the surface of the pages like marbles on a shiny table-top . |
| 3 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 4 | Johnny was standing with his back to her , gazing blankly out of the window , but at her last words , he wheeled round and said sarcastically : ‘ Well , I was wasting my time , was n't I ? |
| 5 | It seemed the weather had beaten me and that I was wasting my time . |
| 6 | ‘ I was taking my time , I was in no rush . |
| 7 | He was angry with those supporters who were wasting our time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ As a matter of fact , Nadine , you were wasting your time all along . |
| 9 | She looked Asian , the only Asian on the check-out that day , and she was taking her time as she was still learning her way around . |
| 10 | Dorothy Hardisty had no doubt that she was wasting her time . |
| 11 | She began to feel that she was wasting her time and that he probably thought that she was mad . |
| 12 | But it quickly became apparent she was wasting her time . |
| 13 | Maudie Mycroft could see she was wasting her time seeking sympathy from the women and she picked up her shopping bag . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | She was wasting her time . |
| 18 | Leith knew then , when her mother began , ‘ Is n't it exciting ? ’ that she was wasting her time expecting her to agree that it was about time Sebastian got his act together . |
| 19 | No wonder she made it clear to Shelley that she was wasting her time . |
| 20 | Dr Russell was taking her seriously , and she was wasting his time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And while they were taking their time we argued about something else . |
| 27 | They were taking their time , as she coochy-cooed down at the gurgling little cutenesses . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was a lovely looking rabbit but it was wasting its time all cooped up in that cage ! ’ |
| 30 | He had auditioned on his own stubborn initiative , although people had warned him that because of his colour he was wasting his time . |