Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | When I found out the times I would be working things started to look better . |
| 3 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 4 | I ca n't say that alcohol did anything to lift my spirits , but at least it filled in the time before my date with Detective Inspector Redpath . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Commuting hassles ate up the time it took to re-stock one-off designs . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If we had gone on , our love would have brought us the death we secretly called up every time we embraced . |
| 12 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 13 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |
| 14 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 15 | It seemed ages before they sorted out the time . |
| 16 | We listened hard every time the door to Frank 's new room opened . |
| 17 | The process of report and interrogation took quite a time , and Rostov began to suspect that if he and the others were to be subjected to some form of tribunal before their fate was decided , then at least it would pass for a fair one . |
| 18 | That was actually quite a productive meeting , although it took quite a time to get through it , I think we did the right thing on the continuous procedures . |
| 19 | I remembered also the time we finally accepted that British Council invitation and went to give a poetry reading in Madrid . |
| 20 | It is a tragic fact that the European debate , which is the most complex and important issue facing the countries of this continent , should be treated in such a facile manner , with the Trojan horse of ‘ nationalism ’ and ‘ sovereignty ’ wheeled out every time better arguments do not prevail . |
| 21 | He gave Yet no time to strike again . |
| 22 | He whiled away the time by contemplating the stained glass lancet windows behind the preacher and the holy table . |
| 23 | Outside the men whiled away the time brewing tea on the pavement . |
| 24 | Bored GIs waiting for the war with Iraq to begin whiled away the time with fellow female soldiers . |
| 25 | Bored GIs waiting for the war with Iraq to begin whiled away the time with fellow female soldiers . |
| 26 | There were bars across it , behind which Silly-Willie whiled away the time . |
| 27 | They whiled away the time , Ranulf playing dice against himself , the only time he ever lost . |
| 28 | A fat Jaguar promptly swerved past him , closed up on the truck and started weaving in and out , forced back every time . |
| 29 | For the first time in all his journeys he found a room that was completely empty , but he had n't the time to investigate it , or any of the others he entered . |
| 30 | Berthe Weill protested that she could not leave the gallery for the moment , she had n't the time , there were all the guests to look after . |