Example sentences of "time [that] i [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rent was one shilling and tenpence for each dwelling — I remember the amount because Miss Young went to the Church Vestry to pay for both herself and her neighbour each Saturday morning at the same time that I was collecting the pensions for the Almshouse Ladies . |
| 2 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 3 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 4 | I had a dream at this time that I was caught by the Nazis . |
| 5 | I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies . |
| 6 | The whole time that I was working at Erith with Wartberg I would journey right across London every Friday afternoon to see Gyggle at his new office . |
| 7 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 8 | The blazer badge reinforced the ‘ capture of bodies ’ philosophy which had sustained our earlier lives , but was created at the same time that I was compiling a paper for presentation at the national BMA police surgeons ' conference . |