Example sentences of "was [v-ing] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembers the Very High Frequency ( VHF ) radio was far superior to the kit the RAF was using at that time . |
| 2 | Erm he was using at that time an R registered Ford Escort er , which was er , only insured third party , fire and theft . |
| 3 | Erm he was using at that time an R registered Ford Escort er which was er only insured third party fire and theft . |
| 4 | The historical texts were confined to enumerating the kings who lived in those troubled years and do not give any indication that something important was occurring at that time . |
| 5 | Now what I want to do is look at what was happening at that time and then try and explain using the determinants of demand what the patterns actually were . |
| 6 | generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? |
| 7 | Whatever was happening at this time , we were all isolated from each other . |
| 8 | ‘ She said he was laughing at that time and she just wanted to frighten him . ’ |
| 9 | The Second Book of his Concerti ( 1607 ) actually contains a monodic ‘ Missa Dominicalis ’ with continuo , though his textures are often contrapuntal and have no very close affinity , except in coloratura , with the secular monody which was developing at this time . |
| 10 | It was considered that rough copper was costing at that time £3 : 15s : 0d to produce but would sell for only £2 : 16s : 0d at the most . |
| 11 | Talking of reruns Madam er deputy speaker , er I almost feel I 'm involved in a series of reruns with the er with the minister himself because er in a series of bills er committees in the eighties , standing committees on the building societies bill , on the banking bill , on the financial services er bill , as they all were , er he was speaking at that time er in favour of more effective regulation , backing the votes of this side er for kind , the kind of policies it 's introducing today . |
| 12 | These formed far and away the largest group in the population of Europe , and it is the evidence that their numbers were expanding rapidly which offers the most substantial proof that the population of western Christendom as a whole was rising at this time . |
| 13 | he was so carried away with Newley that I believe quite unconsciously , Newley crept into Bowie 's voice and , as you know , he 's been accused of copying Tony Newley , but I do n't think he was really aware of what he was doing at that time . |
| 14 | They would visit to see what it was doing at particular times , like haymaking . |
| 15 | All I was doing at this time , if I was n't at school , was watching TV , listening to music , reading or walking , with Dawn as my constant companion . |
| 16 | However , most of the work he was doing at this time was of a minor nature . |
| 17 | First , it is clear that they would need to be mutually oriented ; they would each need to be aware of what the other was doing at any time . |
| 18 | On relating the story to Mr Bailey , the man asked whether a train service was running at that time of night . |
| 19 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 20 | The Mid Hampshire coroner , Grahame Short , said : ‘ It seems that Sarah was contemplating at that time taking her life . |