Example sentences of "[art] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the very same story the time oor Isa sent for the stilettos very much against my advice as it happens but they were supposed to be real made-in-England leather uppers available in three colourways , aubergine , aqua or avocado well , as she said herself she was expecting green but nothing quite as Irish as they turned out in fact to be . |
| 2 | Her coughing had started again and soon tears mingled with wheezing and she was in a sorry state by the time her husband came back to say the carriage was ready . |
| 3 | By the time her mother rose in an elegant flourish of Pucci and swept her towards the door in that ostentatiously motherly way she had , Jo was in a sulk as deep as the Pacific Trench . |
| 4 | At the time her chip was stolen Lori McElroy , a latter day femme fatale from East Kilbride , was 28 and enjoying a holiday abroad with her student boyfriend . |
| 5 | Ruth Michaelis felt betrayed from the time her mother brought her over to England and left her with the Reverend Stead and his family . |
| 6 | Without speaking , she elbowed him out of the way and continued with her baking , thumping and banging the dough into shape , all the time her tears falling silently . |
| 7 | It does grow less from the time her grown-up children leave the home and this crisis , which often happens quite early in life , often disturbs her very badly ; but still she does not see herself thrown into total idleness and her role of grandmother brings her fresh possibilities . |
| 8 | All the time her daughter lay asleep nearby in a cot . |
| 9 | Buttons landed perfectly and came away from the jump so well that by the time her father had collected himself and his horse Artemis and Buttons were alongside them . |
| 10 | She spent a year working for the writer Charles Morgan , but all the time her real purpose was somehow to work with Eliot himself . |
| 11 | Mary had begun to visit her regularly on Friday mornings — with Mr Fenton 's express approval and the Christian support of her mother — when she was about fourteen — at about the time her father had begun to use her in the Fish and Budworth had turned up to sketch his mischief . |
| 12 | She played the piano excellently , she sang sweetly , she discussed intelligently , and all the time her flashing eyes , rich black curls and fine figure attracted glances from every gentleman in the room . |
| 13 | All the time her face remained in shadow , the attitude of her head intent and concentrated ; no eyes ever sought his face . |
| 14 | Most of the time her mother was not there ; or if she was she did n't appear . |
| 15 | By the time her daughter caught the impact of the words , Hilda was intently laying her word out on the board . |
| 16 | Without thinking , she drank deeply from her glass , all the time her eyes riveted on to those early leaders as the brandy burnt its way down her throat . |
| 17 | Then she went on colouring very slowly and carefully , wondering all the time what she was going to do next . |
| 18 | There is no fun at all in repeatedly looking into bright sunlight , straining your eyes and wondering all the time what 's happening — because it is almost certain that you will be unable to see as well as you really need to . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't realise at the time what had happened . |
| 20 | She seemed distressed , ‘ I mean Balbinder , he used to just sit by the telly , even now he still … he wants toys … he does n't want to do the things , he wants to do all the time what he wants to do … ’ |
| 21 | I still number some of them as personal friends all these years later , but at the time what struck me was their unbelievable competence and sheer quality compared with the wretchedly small scope they had been given in prewar Britain . |
| 22 | I said at the time what I thought was right , and I stick all through to what I believe to be right . |
| 23 | And all the time what is happening to the size and girth of the branches as we look up higher ? |
| 24 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 25 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 26 | He 'll want , want me to keep my eye on them all the time what he , what he 's got in mind , what 's running , when he thinks they 'll win races . |
| 27 | Ideas , ideas everywhere ideas all the time what am I do this what about this how about this ? |
| 28 | Was n't clear at the time what the circumstances were . |
| 29 | We did a great deal of work with music and in listening to sounds and in rhythms , and then a lot of work in which I actually read to him and he followed all the time what I was reading , so that he would try to link the sounds and the words together . |
| 30 | And , and I think all the time what the leaflet does is give options , it 's never directoral and never goes , never sort of overstates , it 's just giving a range of options . |