Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] at the time " in BNC.

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1 I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo .
2 They dismiss US claims that the war is ‘ going to plan ’ , noting only that the multi-national force is four weeks into a war which shows no likelihood of ending soon at the time of writing .
3 I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does .
4 Lucky because Ken Backhouse was walking by at the time .
5 Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time .
6 Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time .
7 I only explained I was listening in at the time .
8 In many cases the husband and wife will be living apart at the time of the court order , or at a time when agreement is reached between them concerning the former matrimonial home , in circumstances that are likely to prove permanent .
9 It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing .
10 But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that .
14 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 .
15 There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know .
16 Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ?
17 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 .
18 ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively .
19 This is especially true for those growing up at the time , like my own children .
20 He recalls a game with Durham 20 years ago when Darlington , going well at the time , were 12–0 down without touching the ball .
21 The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet !
22 ‘ Country properties were not selling well at the time .
23 He was a great favourite with the London playgoers , and there were a lot of Falstaff jokes going round at the time .
24 After the broadcast finished Mary and I thanked Joelle for coming on the programme and being a target for all the anti-French feeling flying around at the time .
25 ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time .
26 So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success .
27 I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on .
28 ‘ Because I 'll never cry for you again , ’ I said , which was a very false promise , because I was crying inside at the time , and only I know how much I cried for her later .
29 All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it .
30 David Paul McKnight ( 27 ) , of Juniper Park was said by his solicitor at Craigavon Crown Court to be ‘ a virtual alcoholic ’ and was drinking heavily at the time of the offences on January 4 .
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