Example sentences of "[adv] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Many of these are designed to speed up your computer , especially the time it takes to get graphics up on-screen . |
2 | So the time I spend with them would be more profitably employed here in the surgery . ’ |
3 | Also to fill in the time she used Allen 's bow . |
4 | Yeah , the only the time he 'd been paid |
5 | ‘ They had a special route round the garden which was just about a mile , and they put one stone down every time they passed it ’ , the assistant gardener Fred Drury observed . |
6 | Her head goes up and down every time you put a forkful in . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
9 | so every time he looks in the mirror he 'll know |
10 | The bassoonist in the orchestra does so every time she plays a note . |
11 | So every time she says something . |
12 | So every time I thought I was dropping off they 'd start . |
13 | So every time you cut the grass — or wield a chainsaw , for that matter — you 're helping to pollute the air with evil hydrocarbons and they want you to feel bad about that . |
14 | So every time you return the carriage to the machine , tip it up first to check that nothing metallic ( pins and needles are great offenders , not to mention the double ended bodkin ) has been drawn to these magnets . |
15 | So every time you pass an E R F on the motorway or it passes you , it 's one of our engines from that 's powering it . |
16 | So what he does now he always comes in over the top , so every time you see John shake hands with anybody he 'll always do that and come in over the top actually I 'm in charge and he sort of er sort of stamps his authority on the individual . |
17 | Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible . |
18 | Perhaps next to the telephone so every time it rings , no … well perhaps next to … |
19 | Passing the township , both brakes jammed on , I slither and judder down the newly regravelled surface , hoping for something to pass and pick me up , but also marvelling at the open splendour of the valley scenery which surprises me afresh every time I look . |
20 | When , by George , he 'd got it , he was so pleased with himself that if you were n't quick enough you 'd get a turn on the forehand every time you stopped , which could be disconcerting for following drivers in narrow country lanes . |
21 | And being a conniving little toady with an eye for the main chance , he proclaimed that the second should equal exactly the time it took to say ‘ praise Caesar ’ . |
22 | not the time we did n't , we have n't got the |
23 | He might sit it out ten minutes just to annoy , but not the time it took him to fidget all round the place as he seems to have done . |
24 | " We ca n't have you fainting away every time we go to an auto-da-fé . " |
25 | There 's always a time she might be able to exchange |
26 | Cut us short every time we tried to speak ( me too ) . |
27 | I 've hated it more every time I 've been back . |
28 | In so short a time she 'd forgotten just how big he was . |
29 | She had n't realized how short a time it was until their departure . |
30 | You must tell them off every time they do something you do n't want them too . ’ |