Example sentences of "was [v-ing] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 2 | It was raining at the time . |
| 3 | Mind you , I was pretty out of order at some of his famous parties , out-drinking George Brown and all those Labour ministers that he was courting at the time . ’ |
| 4 | All this was happening at a time when the Canadian Northern Railway was creating , in effect , a third transcontinental railway , built on much more economical lines than the exceptionally expensive and high-quality GTP . |
| 5 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 6 | In my experience , the only occasions when I have stalled unexpectedly and known what was happening at the time , have been in very fierce stubble fires and dust devils . |
| 7 | We did n't know what was happening at the time , we thought he was choking . |
| 8 | Another form of argument to be considered involves analysis of what else was happening at the time a text was written and first published . |
| 9 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 10 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
| 11 | You see , she was wandering at the time . ’ |
| 12 | So I drove up to Illinois , where Ray was living at the time , and got him to build me one . |
| 13 | The supporting cast was made up of Sylvia Miles , Brenda Vaccaro , John McGiver , Barnard Hughes ( film debut ) , Ruth White and Jennifer Salt ( the screenwriter 's 25-year-old daughter with whom the divorced Voight was living at the time ) . |
| 14 | At the Ryecroft bail hostel in Gloucester , where Hagans was living at the time , another witness said Hagans had tried to sell him a wedding ring for ten pounds , and was wearing a gold chain necklace . |
| 15 | Caron wrote it in the aftermath of the '92 riots in LA where she was living at the time . |
| 16 | Only I was passing at the time . |
| 17 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 18 | No , I do n't know what it , he did n't bang on the doors , I was hoovering at the time Is that nice ? |
| 19 | In the Soviet Union popular support for the manned space programme was dwindling at a time of great economic hardship and political uncertainty for the majority of the population . |
| 20 | We all knew each other anyway — I 've known Si the bass player and Chris the drummer for years — but it was one of those places where everyone was going at the time , where you could meet other musicians and bounce some ideas around . |
| 21 | Maybe the local gossip that was going at the time . |
| 22 | He became very confused and it was suggested that the squadron would like something which she was wearing at the time . |
| 23 | In each case the sentence is true if the person who spoke was skipping at the time of the utterance . |
| 24 | We were I was I was patrolling at the time , with me partner . |
| 25 | If I am not mistaken , Davis was fielding at the time of his injury , and while one must concede that the wearing of helmets by batsmen , though hideous , is permissible , their use in the field is surely unacceptable and should be banned . |
| 26 | I think if you saw what David did afterwards , he was obviously attracted to the one-man show that Tony Newley was doing at the time like , ‘ Stop The World ’ and things like that , and the lyrics appealed to him . |
| 27 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 28 | They had chosen one of the coldest Decembers ever recorded in England to make their journey , and Coleridge , plagued once more with neuralgia and illness , was suffering at the time from a face ‘ monstrously swoln ’ . |
| 29 | Ethiopia 's last bad drought was in 1972 , when perhaps 200 000 died ( no one was counting at the time ) . |
| 30 | Reincarnation and re-creation would be crucial to The Waste Land where Buddhist ideas would have an important place and where various voices of the dead , from that of Dante to that of Mayne Reid , would play their part in a sort of literary metempsychosis , not entirely unlike that used by Joyce in Ulysses , which Eliot was reading at the time . |