Example sentences of "[art] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrived elegant check on the hour . |
| 2 | And Goldberg , on his pad : If the fool had ever bothered to read what I have written on the subject in the essay on aura and the hour he would not have flailed about as he does here . |
| 3 | The Carabinieri chief had left at once with a promise of finding the man within the hour , to which he added , sotto voce , a pledge to get the truth out of him by whatever methods might be necessary . |
| 4 | Street lamps streak her face , a voice streaks unconscious ears as the driver curses the dark , the hour , the traffic , the bloody liability sprawled on the back seat . |
| 5 | Dennis arrived just before the clock chimed the hour . |
| 6 | The woman I spoke to on the phone realised this immediately and within the hour a man in a boiler suit arrived . |
| 7 | Does Thought create , and work , and rule the hour ? |
| 8 | I took the woman 's advice and looked for work paid by the hour . |
| 9 | Whatever local radio you were listening to during the 3rd week of June , it is likely that you would have heard Delahunty 's editorial director , Paul Mace , on the hour , every hour , bringing you those live reports from the Pilkington Glass Ladies ' Championships at Eastbourne . |
| 10 | Mathematics if not logic equated the two-goal lead Chelsea had established on the hour with a third-round place for the First Division side after the two clubs had drawn 1-1 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 11 | She proved both wrong , getting richer and lovelier by the hour . |
| 12 | Bibbs ' effort was cancelled by Larder 's second try on the hour , Steadman managing to hit an upright with the kick from under the posts , and although Knapper was successful with two further penalties , David Plange tied the scores when Gary French squeezed a pass out of a tackle on the line 12 minutes from the end . |
| 13 | At the hour when we are |
| 14 | At the far end was St. Giles Church — which meant we never had an excuse for being late anywhere as the bells tolled the hour — and the quarters — right through the night |
| 15 | Yet in both respects he was notable for a quicksilver opportunism of mind , adapting his arguments to the circumstances of the hour . |
| 16 | Boats were for hire by the hour and they had rowed on the lake . |
| 17 | He finished five minutes before the hour . |
| 18 | Most of the hour Richard spent pacing up and down the corridor , stopping at windows to look out between the buildings at bare trees and transparent hedges . |
| 19 | But just past the hour Taewa , after good centre play from Watson and Sherlock , reasserted their authority . |
| 20 | As night fell on East Berlin yesterday , the packed row of people squatting on top of the Wall in the West was growing bigger by the hour . |
| 21 | Todd 's follow-up on the hour , from similar range , arose from Pearson 's cleverly squirted pass , but only after Atkins , swinging wildly , had made a hash of his clearance as Dawson 's barnstorming run down the right seemed sure to be betrayed by a poorly-struck cross . |
| 22 | But a lull in Burnley 's flurries saw Tony Daws leap on to a bad back-pass , skip round a defender and the converging goalkeeper and equalise just after the hour . |
| 23 | Just past the hour Suker , their only effective forward , worked his way to the left-hand byline and shrugged disconsolately when nobody ran through the middle to meet his pass . |
| 24 | The roar of the SuperMark becomes louder by the hour as freedom translates to trading and economic opportunities to the Western economy plumb in the centre of the new Central Europe . |
| 25 | The hour is late , but the likes of View From a Hill and Hothouse Flowers wo n't admit it . |
| 26 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 27 | We 'll be back inside the hour . |
| 28 | Well , that was all right — she could look after Mum in the hour that was to follow while the identity of the body was established , and in all the grim hours after that , if the body was her sister . |
| 29 | Another , who did not pass by on the hour , might think , not of Death , but of the astrolabe showing the positions of the planets . |
| 30 | He would do all the foreplay while she was fifteen , then celebrate her sixteenth birthday — to the hour — in style . |