Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew all that and , more , she had actually been passing at the time . |
| 2 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 3 | Under the Administration of justice Act 1982 , where a will contains a devise or bequest to a child or remoter descendant of the testator , and the intended beneficiary dies before the testator , leaving issue who are living at the time of the testator 's death , then , unless a contrary intention appears in the will , the devise or bequest passes to the issue living at the testator 's death . |
| 4 | When you feel like ‘ beating yourself up ’ , observe how you are acting at the time . |
| 5 | And th the stories that you read are all , all for children are they ones that you 're reading from a book , or are they ones that you 're inventing at the time , or what ? |
| 6 | Oh in fact you 're not even you could never have to go back to that same place but depends on where what you 're doing at the time that assignment comes up for reselling . |
| 7 | We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia . |
| 8 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 9 | Charles had been directing at the time and cast him as Young Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer . |
| 10 | WHY Do we drink coffee ? one answer is to keep us interested in what we are doing at the time — typing , say , or repairing a car . |
| 11 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
| 12 | The light from the big bang , though , has come much farther — it has been travelling since the time , less than 1m years after the moment of creation , when the universe became thin enough for radiation emitted by one atom to be unlikely to hit another . |
| 13 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 14 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 15 | Station Officer Russ Broadbent of Southport Fire station , said : ‘ It was very lucky that Mrs Parry happened to be passing at the time . |
| 16 | Although ideally basic competence in moving about independently should be developing by the time the pupil first comes to school , there is likely to be among visually handicapped children a range of levels of skill in independent mobility and in competence in using the environment fully and safely . |
| 17 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 18 | ‘ You did n't seem to be complaining at the time . ’ |
| 19 | But even Rolls-Royce must be seen to be moving with the times . |
| 20 | Their potential has already been recognised and exploited in other fields — schools will not so much be moving with the times as running to catch up . |
| 21 | Everything had an improvised , random air about it , as if people had erected new machines just where they happened to be standing at the time , next to the debris of the old . |
| 22 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 23 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |
| 24 | In many cases it is extremely difficult to carry out tests under truly controlled conditions , because the external conditions are changing throughout the time period in question . |
| 25 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 26 | You were looking at the time , but it did n't come up , I mean . |
| 27 | Both authors appear to belittle the great range of plants that were living at the times of their animals and the ways in which these plants were constantly evolving and migrating . |
| 28 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 29 | ‘ I got my chemistry degree and like everybody else I applied for whatever jobs were going at the time . |
| 30 | In those days there was n't a great deal of of mining , I mean was n't open , and er there was a tremendous amount , well there 's a fair amount of of traffic agricultural traffic , and I mean one had to accept that virtually everything came in , all coal , road stone , erm goods required er for well 's who were going at the time , they er they used the railway . |