Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She began to feel that she was wasting her time and that he probably thought that she was mad . |
| 4 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 5 | Well , he was wasting his time because as far as he was concerned she had no senses left ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Major Maxim then told him that there was no special hurry and that he was to take his time and make his statement complete . |