Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1987 more than half of Scottish consultant psychiatrists were spending some time each week in primary care settings compared with fewer than a fifth in England and Wales . |
| 2 | RUC were taking some time to settle down but once Davy Barbour had landed his first penalty from about 50 metres the lights went out and the Holywood stars faded . |
| 3 | I felt the world beginning to drift into the distance again , but I knew what was happening this time and got my head down quickly . |
| 4 | Before he was twenty ( an age at which most FI drivers today are already well established in the regular line of ascent towards FI ) , Mario was racing several times a week — sometimes five races in a day — in whatever cars he could get his hands on : jalopies , sprints , three-quarter midgets , midgets . |
| 5 | The feeling was growing each time they met , and Alain 's dark eyes told her he knew . |
| 6 | The sun was shining this time , but Alyssia would have remembered that little house anywhere . |
| 7 | Now Tom was managing the manor farm , Dolly was spending much time at the dairy there . |
| 8 | There was obvious tension between Slozil , Steffi Graf 's former coach , and Capriati and between the coach and Mr Capriati , who did not believe his daughter was spending enough time practising on court . |
| 9 | He still had a low boredom threshold — which was why he was spending less time going to Equity Council meetings . |
| 10 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 11 | Although I was still barely into my teens when I was spending this time with Maureen tending sick birds , I learned a lot about general care and identification — even if we failed to spot our Russian defector . |
| 12 | The auction was set to begin at one and it was nearing that time when Cornelius finally met up once more with Tuppe . |
| 13 | ‘ Was n't it you she was teasing that time , when the bees came out ? |