Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun prp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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1 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
2 | Therefore , by dismissing Peres at the time he did , Shamir made certain that he would retain the premiership whatever the outcome of the Knesset vote . |
3 | Accordingly , without intercepting their telephone communications we obtained a fair amount of information about their attitudes on quite a wide range of topics that were concerning C.N.D. at the time . |
4 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
5 | In 756 , after successfully campaigning against the Britons of Strathclyde and besieging Dumbarton at the time of the alliance with Ă“engus , son of Forgus , king of the Picts , almost the whole of Eadberht 's army perished at Newburgh on the Tyne , perhaps at the hands of the Britons . |
6 | He was making the investitures in lieu of his mother who was touring Africa at the time . |
7 | The Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , who was visiting Washington at the time the invitations were sent out , reacted angrily , stating that a Dec. 4 starting date did not allow enough time for Israel to prepare . |