Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Judy Bathurst studied art as a student at Leeds University , but it was not until ten years ago , when she went to live in Tuscany , that she found both the time and the inspiration to develop her talent .
2 All I can do is let you know nearer the time if this is the case .
3 Because one did not know how accurately the clock had been ticking during the processes of weighing , one could not know precisely the times at which the movements of the shutter occurred between which the radiation was released .
4 The beast , or rather the cloud of smoke , kept lunging at Little Billy , but Swan was too quick for him and jinked away every time .
5 Thereafter the reaction occurs obligingly every time they eat the food — but the response is a psychogenic one .
6 ‘ Oh , she 'll more likely do so with him than to you , knowing that it 's hell let loose every time you look at each other .
7 He was remembering again the time when he returned to England fifteen years ago from the tropical island on which he had been left .
8 The methods are applied systematically every time the behaviour occurs or is about to occur .
9 A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above .
10 Many firms offer training two years in advance but they tend to be the larger organisations and if you wish to work for a smaller firm or , for example , a local authority , you often need to apply nearer the time .
11 It I be needed almost every time you have any information to give to the media .
12 If they 're whingeing because they have n't got quite the times they hoped for , then let them complain into your shell-like ear for a change .
13 He looks like hell and sounds awful … the nascent Mancunian drawl is weak and strained , his hands shake , and there 's a muscle by his jaw that keeps twitching violently every time there 's a lull in the conversation
14 The nascent Mancunian drawl is weak and strained , his hands shake , and there 's a muscle by his jaw that keeps twitching violently every time there 's a lull in the conversation .
15 So , we lack both a time and a place for the murder .
16 The use of a bar-line stave ( not shown ) ensures that bar-lines are placed automatically every time the screen is refreshed , highlighting mistakes .
17 How much truth there was in all these myths you now know as well as I. Certainly the Witnesses hit early on the fact that , rippling in and out of hyperspace , even ships as basic as the Bergen Kobold change slightly every time .
18 And so here she was , one snail crawl through the blizzard to Kennedy , a five-hour delay and a flight in which she was wedged between a nun who prayed aloud every time they hit an air-pocket , and a child in need of worming , later .
19 " We ca n't have you fainting away every time we go to an auto-da-fé . "
20 But for those who are unable or unwilling to put aside the time to meditate regularly , or who are more conscious of bodily stress , such techniques as acupuncture , postural integration and taking dietary supplements may also prove effective antidotes to the ravages of time .
21 Each driver would be given a free monthly allowance , which a meter would debit electronically every time a driver entered or left a freeway .
22 These demonstrations serve to emphasise the importance of moving forwards every time the glider is stalled .
23 Tommy spent quite a time delivering the handbills to every house in the town and opened for business at eight o'clock on a Monday morning and closed twelve hours later .
24 Dad spent quite a time loading manure on to a flat-bedded cart , harnessed a horse , put it between the shafts and away to Bugmore we went , with me feeling like a king beside him .
25 ‘ But you do n't stop there every time ? ’
26 This is because the electronic pulses which control the scanning of the video picture are interrupted at the point of the change , and the system takes quite a time to re-adjust itself .
27 But it takes quite a time for the liquid to solidify and the glass to splinter and fragment .
28 The addiction takes quite a time to develop .
29 And if you could get here by half past seven those of you who have got items , it 'll be much appreciated cos it takes quite a time to set them out .
30 A ( Soviet ) DRA proposal at the Geneva talks in February 1987 for the first time made public a time frame for Soviet withdrawal , eighteen months , with no conditions attached to the process of ‘ national reconciliation ’ in Afghanistan .
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