Example sentences of "[prep] [art] time [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ During the time we had the picture in our possession , in an attempt to keep it off the international art market we consulted the criminal police , and attempted to put the picture on the index of important works of art which can not leave Germany . |
| 2 | That the congregation progressed favourably during the time they had ministers and probationers to preach there , but their progress has been suddenly arrested by having no minister to officiate among them . |
| 3 | Then I injured my knee , and during the time I had off to get my knee better , I discovered that there was life outside the ballet . |
| 4 | She rang erm a le , did she tell so , did , mum tell you about the time she had erm some calls about two in the morning ? |
| 5 | About the time he had taken his reluctant swim . |
| 6 | And what about the time he had interrupted Lord Boddy , and then realized that all he had wanted to say was that it was interesting ? |
| 7 | There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed . |
| 8 | After a time she had a stroke which semiparalysed her . |
| 9 | And then , after a time he had n't . |
| 10 | Certainly we had to please people lots of the time -we had to kiss Aunty and show our school report to Uncle to please people . |
| 11 | Throughout the whole of the time they had no demands to make on the masters . |
| 12 | And most of the time they had been together , he had had far too much control . |
| 13 | At Talgarth they got wind of skirmishes in the south , and set off southward over Mynedd Troed for Tretower ; but because of the time they had lost they were always too far behind their quarry even to realise the magnitude of the chance that persistently slipped through their fingers . |
| 14 | In fact , as on the previous day , most of the passengers had already begun going ashore early , determined not to miss a minute of the time they had before the ship sailed again that evening . |
| 15 | There were just three scaldini in each compartment , so most of the time we had to take turns . |
| 16 | In addition it was to be hoped that Max could come up with some fairly definite cause of death ; and it was even possible ( if only just ) that the surgeon might throw caution to the wind for once and volunteer a tentative approximation of the time it had actually happened . |
| 17 | I think his experience of farming was somewhat limited because of the time he had spent in the Army , and that would not make things easy for Grandma Hauxwell because she had to take on more responsibility around the farm . |
| 18 | He did n't think of her as often now , except perhaps on a long weekend when he was off-duty ; the rest of the time he had things to occupy his mind . |
| 19 | Most of the time he had been her Mark : vigorous , full of optimism , never letting anything matter . |
| 20 | But most of the time she had tremendous fun . |
| 21 | She proved to be the Glisseuse , a rather shabby forty foot motor cruiser , difficult to see on Venturous ' radar , so that much of the time she had to be kept at visual distance , especially as she approached the busy traffic lanes of the Thames . |
| 22 | Like a robot she 'd made the calls Steve should have made and the rest of the time she had walked the city , trying to be a tourist taking in all the sights . |
| 23 | It reminded her of the time she had slept here , and woken to find him beside her with his arm around her in his beautifully furnished bedroom . |
| 24 | It was like the time she had thrown a cheque for one hundred and twenty pounds into the fire one Christmas , thinking the envelope was empty , though luckily it had been a present from her godfather , and he had good-naturedly written her another . |
| 25 | Yet for a time she had even got better , but then suddenly today — ‘ or yesterday now ’ he thought , looking at the luminous dials of the old clock he kept by his bed — she had got worse again . |
| 26 | For a time she had even innocently believed that Luke 's father 's recent death had been responsible for the anger she had sensed in him , until she gradually grew aware that it was something personal , directed at her , his dealings with most of the station 's personnel characterised by charm , his impatience with any inadequacies purely professional . |
| 27 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 28 | I was also becoming frustrated with the time I had to spend on commercial projects at BRM . |
| 29 | Agnes began to cry , quietly at first , then it mounted into sobs , then almost into hysteria and in it she gabbled out incoherently to the three gaping sisters what had transpired from the time she had taken the linen across to the house . |
| 30 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |