Example sentences of "he was [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir James was reported as having called for a return of capital punishment , launched an attack on the parole system , favoured the abolition of the right to silence for accused persons , referred to a black person as a ‘ nig-nog ’ , and made a remark about ‘ murderous Sikhs ’ involved in a case he was hearing at the time . |
| 2 | The many underground railway schemes on which he was engaged at the time of his death had to be completed by others , but the Greathead shield is his lasting memorial . |
| 3 | Franco put his in his mouth and chewed it up , he was teething at the time . |
| 4 | Mind you , I was pretty out of order at some of his famous parties , out-drinking George Brown and all those Labour ministers that he was courting at the time . ’ |
| 5 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 6 | He was employed at the time at Killingworth colliery , in charge of the steam engines used to raise coal and water from the mines . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | There 'll be twenty people at least who could swear he was working at the time . |
| 10 | And in the week , I do n't think he was working at the time , but on a Sunday morning he 'd walk out of that terrace house and er he 'd be immaculate , absolutely . |