Example sentences of "[art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly we had to please people lots of the time -we had to kiss Aunty and show our school report to Uncle to please people . |
| 2 | A recent survey of church youth groups shows that 1 in 4 have had sex by the time they are eighteen years old , 1 in 10 under the age of sixteen . |
| 3 | But it 's true to say that most actors feel their drama school training has left them inadequately prepared for working in television and film by the time they graduate . |
| 4 | I think there should be a more stringent system of entry into the drama schools so that there is a higher standard of work achieved by the time they come to join the profession . |
| 5 | Brenda says she was in a coma by the time they got her into the hospital . |
| 6 | Now may be the time they are willing to tell you what has been going on . |
| 7 | The time they shared became special now , where before they had been free and easy . |
| 8 | Usually , by the time they have lost enough weight , they are totally fatigued ! |
| 9 | She and Donald had started to take risks — they wanted each other so much that the reality of other people had dimmed for them , half the time they felt cloaked in invisibility . |
| 10 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 11 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 12 | By the time they started ‘ I Guess it Does n't Matter Anymore ’ they were onto the last saucepan and the table was covered with clean , dry things . |
| 13 | By the time they make up their mind , the Chinese will probably be back to their old ways . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 15 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 16 | Constables know that all radio messages are taped and that the time they take to arrive at calls is recorded , which is often unnecessary , given the competition to beat other stations and colleagues by getting there first , although stories were told to us of instances where people were transferred for failing to respond to a call . |
| 17 | They 'd had their one hit with ‘ Guns Of Navarone ’ and he was the toaster by the time they were doing the small-time club circuit . |
| 18 | In order to answer this last question it is necessary to look briefly at the type of anthropological work available to Marx and Engels at the time they were writing . |
| 19 | The Norwegians choose a long ridge walk to go back to the camp and by the time they have arrived , Tony and I have decided to take the kayaks out on to the Ocean . |
| 20 | By the time they had reached the end of Jefferson Street for the first time , the US Grand Prix was all over . |
| 21 | By the time they reached the third floor they were both out of breath . |
| 22 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
| 23 | The remainder were to be preserved or put to other uses , but delays in reaching decisions often meant that the buildings had been severely vandalised by the time they were available for conversion . |
| 24 | But all the time they are hardening their muscles and sharpening their wits , so that the pretence of being grown-up helps them to grow up in earnest . ’ |
| 25 | But all the time they forage they are alert , ready to withdraw instantly at the first hint of danger . |
| 26 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 27 | ‘ With the highlights package , now at last they will be able to see the best cricket at the time they will want to watch it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ With the highlights package , now at last they will be able to see the best cricket at the time they will want to watch it . ’ |
| 29 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 30 | But they want to be sure it is empty at the time they might need to sell or redevelop . |