Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] at the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Security and crowd control video cameras were recording at the time of Saturday 's attack , but cut out when the fire blew the electricity supply . |
| 2 | Now police are examining video tapes from cameras used for crowd control and security , which it is believed were recording at the time of the attack . |
| 3 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 4 | This is a much larger proportion than that found among teenage women , where only about 1 in 3 were cohabiting at the time of the birth . |
| 5 | Gene Miles , who along with Dean Bell , has provided the solidity for Wigan to batter opponents into submission so often this season , explained the significance of the December get-together : ‘ The injuries were clearing at the time of the team meeting and we put everything into winning games around Christmas and New Year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In each case the sentence is true if the person who spoke was skipping at the time of the utterance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Indeed , he was talking at the time about the possibility of him returning to Europe a few days later with Sampras for the Davis Cup final . |
| 12 | CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ . |