Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 2 | They dismiss US claims that the war is ‘ going to plan ’ , noting only that the multi-national force is four weeks into a war which shows no likelihood of ending soon at the time of writing . |
| 3 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 4 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 5 | Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time . |
| 6 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 7 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 8 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 9 | In many cases the husband and wife will be living apart at the time of the court order , or at a time when agreement is reached between them concerning the former matrimonial home , in circumstances that are likely to prove permanent . |
| 10 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 11 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 12 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 13 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 14 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 15 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 16 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 17 | There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know . |
| 18 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 19 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 20 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
| 21 | This is especially true for those growing up at the time , like my own children . |
| 22 | He recalls a game with Durham 20 years ago when Darlington , going well at the time , were 12–0 down without touching the ball . |
| 23 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 24 | ‘ Country properties were not selling well at the time . |
| 25 | He was a great favourite with the London playgoers , and there were a lot of Falstaff jokes going round at the time . |
| 26 | The strength of the stock market has been built entirely on the belief that the economy is about to start growing again at a time when inflation , earnings growth and interest rates are all low and falling , creating ideal conditions for a period of non-inflationary growth . |
| 27 | After the broadcast finished Mary and I thanked Joelle for coming on the programme and being a target for all the anti-French feeling flying around at the time . |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 29 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |
| 30 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |