Example sentences of "were [v-ing] at the same time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
| 2 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 3 | As they came close we watched as they demonstrated the subtle science of reading the often obscure words of the hymn and seeing where they were going at the same time . |
| 4 | We did n't sit down thinking deeply about what we had been doing or anything like that , largely because we were teaching at the same time . |
| 5 | Put that down and we thought right draw the circle , space it out equally , six equal angles is what we were doing at the same time as six equal arcs , all at sixty degrees , or all at one sixth of three sixty . |
| 6 | A number of ships were leaving at the same time — presumably with what they 'd come for , after Recovery — but we were slotted into the readiness pattern at fourth place . |