Example sentences of "[was/were] happening at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We did n't know what was happening at the time , we thought he was choking . |
| 4 | Another form of argument to be considered involves analysis of what else was happening at the time a text was written and first published . |
| 5 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |