Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] 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 I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does .
3 For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’
4 Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time .
5 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 .
6 Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time .
7 I only explained I was listening in at the time .
8 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 .
9 It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing .
10 But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that .
14 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 .
15 There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know .
16 Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ?
17 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 .
18 ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively .
19 This is especially true for those growing up at the time , like my own children .
20 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 !
21 He was a great favourite with the London playgoers , and there were a lot of Falstaff jokes going round at the time .
22 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 .
23 ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time .
24 They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut .
25 Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release .
26 All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it .
27 Which opera was Puccini working on at the time of his death ?
28 ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time .
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