Example sentences of "[verb] on at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 2 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 3 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 4 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 5 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 6 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 7 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 8 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 9 | There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know . |
| 10 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 11 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 12 | There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected . |
| 13 | ‘ He and Marius did n't get on at the time . |
| 14 | Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest . |
| 15 | Which opera was Puccini working on at the time of his death ? |
| 16 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |