Example sentences of "was at [art] time [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bomb exploded , apparently prematurely , in an empty bank building near a concert hall where the band of the Blues and Royals was at the time giving a charity performance in front of some 350 people . |
| 2 | In 1840 Thomas Wilkins , who was at the time running a successful baking business , took over the mill in the centre of Bourton then known as Lower Valley Water Mills . |
| 3 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 4 | Thus , in September , 1976 , a fire aboard HMS Glasgow , which was at the time under-going repairs in the Swan Hunter shipyard , resulted in the death of eight workers . |
| 5 | The death threats had been provoked by Motoshima 's suggestion in December 1988 that Emperor Hirohito ( who was at the time dying of cancer ) bore some responsibility , " as do all of us who lived in that period " , for Japan 's role in the Pacific War of 1941-45 . |