Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Poles were building beautifully at times , and one example engineered by Japek Ziober and Janusz Nawrocki ended with Robert Warzycha curling over a perfect cross from Dziekanowski . |
| 2 | When Ruth arrived at the Rope Walk on Monday morning , she felt as if she were stepping back in time . |
| 3 | I thought we were running out of time . |
| 4 | And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it . |
| 5 | I had the strange feeling I was driving back in time , groping my way into a world of Inca and Chimú people , a world of great empires that built roads and temples and forts of mud on the coast and of cut stone in the Andes , stone that was dove-tailed to resist the trembling of its foundations when the earth quaked . |
| 6 | Lizzie was wandering backwards in time . |
| 7 | He announced he was going just in time to overshadow reports of Mr Major 's humiliation on the evening TV news bulletins . |
| 8 | ‘ I was running out of time to do anything else , ’ said Ms Hinchliffe , who has heard the safety bumps could be in place by spring . |
| 9 | Major 's ex example was rather , was rather a good one because he was running out of time . |
| 10 | The government was running out of time . |
| 11 | He was running out of time . |
| 12 | She was running out of time and courage as it was , she admitted as she leaned into the wardrobe , searching for a pair of navy espadrilles . |