Example sentences of "[adj] [art] time they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Half the time they 're just crazy instruments that do n't have a name . |
| 3 | Until a few years ago , married women had to have paid full NI contributions for half the time they were married and working to get anything at all in their own right . |
| 4 | Half the time they did n't understand what you was trying to tell them , and you could feel yourself working up , through frustration . |
| 5 | They use the handouts you give them — but half the time they put some snide twist on the story . |
| 6 | More than just that shop where you go in you can go all round and wander round and you do n't see anybody only filling the shelves up and half the time they do n't even , ca n't even advise you where to go can they you know . |
| 7 | ‘ Half the time they do n't turn up , ’ Babur says . |
| 8 | I 'd better have about three cos half the time they have n't bloody got them up there |
| 9 | The subtraction from ‘ traditional ’ aid flows implied by Western Europe 's impassioned concern for East Europe has worried the Third World , as its diplomats make clear every time they find a receptive ear . |
| 10 | He had probably told her a lie of one sort or another every time they met . |
| 11 | Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step |
| 12 | He is still unconscious and he is sick every time they move him . |
| 13 | Use these every time they go out in the sun and you 'll help reduce the risk of serious skin damage later in life . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | But all the time they forage they are alert , ready to withdraw instantly at the first hint of danger . |
| 16 | Several times they fell painfully on jagged rocks , so that they learned to move exceedingly slowly , edging forward and feeling for a foothold , and all the time they could not know whether they were not wandering in aimless circles and approaching no nearer to the security of the forest . |
| 17 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 18 | All the time they are experimenting with weight , size and shape in three dimensions . |
| 19 | In fact , the girls suffered permanently from colds and flu from all the time they were forced to spend in the freezing playground . |
| 20 | It was raining intermittently all the time they were in the cemetery , the pines bowing and shivering in the wind . |
| 21 | Adam thought of himself and Rufus as being wild and laid-back at the same time , equally like that , young adventurers with all the world before them and all the time they wanted to do what they liked with . |
| 22 | She did n't mind where I was when I was n't supposed to be working It was natural for a girl to roam She had men coming round , all the time They were n't like Michael . |
| 23 | Because they have seen the future they can not or will not speak of what they know so the Phoenix Guard are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in all the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 24 | They want us to think they will advance through Charleroi , while all the time they will come towards us here ! |
| 25 | They stood among the hogsheads , their wide aprons marked by entrails , their blood-reddened hands dexterously wielding sharp little knives as they slit open the silver bellies and tossed aside the innards — while all the time they chattered endlessly , matching their skill in removing entrails with a similar expertise at gutting other people 's private lives . |
| 26 | No one ever says some have been created and all the time they say there are lots of firms which have been created but they they never give that publicity at all ! |
| 27 | All the time they stroked their nicotine stained moustaches and exhaled noxious fumes from their foam-flecked lips . |
| 28 | ‘ All the time they are talking about how they can boost their goals tally . |
| 29 | ‘ When I think of all the time they 've wasted , trying to prove me guilty while the real killer goes free … ’ |
| 30 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |