Example sentences of "we were [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 2 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 3 | We were separated at the time — the woman in the photographs is Phoebe . |
| 4 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ This bears out what we were saying at the time . ’ |
| 6 | Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men . |
| 7 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 8 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |