Example sentences of "time [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the week , observers were optimistic , yet some still sounded a cautionary note : ‘ This is the first time for a long while I have seen people saying ‘ I want this drawing or painting ’ without any idea of speculation ’ , says Jan Krugier , ‘ but now we must keep control of the situation . |
| 2 | For individuals , it took immense determination , on the part of an Ada Nield Chew or Hannah Mitchell , for example , to change the pattern of their lives and make time for the political work they held dear . |
| 3 | you ha , it 's first time for the whole year you 've seen some of them , and so on . |
| 4 | Henry died twelve days later , and much of Eliot 's time during the two months he stayed in the United States was spent in winding up his affairs . |
| 5 | For much of the time these small market towns may well have appeared sleepy to travellers who were familiar with the hustle and bustle of the big cities , but every week on market day and more especially at the time of the annual fairs they were transformed by an influx of visitors . |
| 6 | About the time of the pericentric inversion we can be less certain , although it must have occurred after the ZNF cluster duplication event . |
| 7 | Westminster Abbey owned , or had a part interest in , twenty-three of the houses involved , in Crown Street , Crown Court and King Street , and by the time of the second schedule they had sold five of these to a private owner . |
| 8 | He said by the time of the next election it would no longer be possible to cancel Trident . |
| 9 | England particularly suffered from these raids , so that by the time of the twelfth-century renaissance it was , in the words of R. W. Southern , ‘ a colony of the French intellectual empire , important in its way and quite productive , but still subordinate ’ . |
| 10 | Marsh , relieved of his post as vice-captain and opening batsman after producing just 185 runs at 26 in four Tests against India and 226 at 25 in West Indies early in 1991 , appeared to accept the logic behind his demise , the first time in a 50-Test career he had been dropped . |
| 11 | Another time in the 1987 election we were driving along a dual carriageway in Norfolk heading for an airport to meet Mrs Thatcher 's plane and join up with the Battlebus . |
| 12 | Some time in the early hours they had reached Madeira . |
| 13 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 14 | At some time in the 19th century it became a school , then reverted to being a private house , but was in a sadly neglected state when bought by Major and Mrs Anthony Burke in 1953 . |
| 15 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 16 | you 'd be expected to , to do a lot of work by yourself , and that 's reflecting the fact that erm you 'll probably have four or five lessons in each of your three subjects , but most people would choose three subjects for A level , and that means that er , when you 're not having lessons , you 've got a lot of time that is not accountable for , you will have been , or going to a general studies period and stuff like that , but there will be a fair number of private study periods , erm , there are some people I think who , who go overboard , and you 've got such a different approach erm from er the lower sixth , people do n't use the time that they have , erm , what I 'm really saying is that if you go into the sixth form and you spend less school time in the sixth form you do n't need to be prepared |
| 17 | I can understand if they take time on a stray dog I often wondered if they realise |
| 18 | But obviously if you 're going to do that you 'll have to do it during next week some time On the other hand I could give you a list of five topics and you could choose one . |
| 19 | In her time at the Royal Academy she remembered buskers in the tube , but they played rock or sometimes jazz . |