Example sentences of "[prep] [art] time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He originally planned to earn enough cash selling computers to pay for the time he spent on the race track . |
| 2 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |
| 3 | During the time we spent in Jamaica , I was greatly impressed with the enthusiasm of the committed Rottweiler owners . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We never noticed it during the time it took for me to qualify and start work as an intern at St Andrew 's in Marylebone . |
| 7 | They would spend the whole of the next four months with us during the time it took to turn us into legionnaires . |
| 8 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
| 9 | Of course , she too eventually left my staff to get married , but I can vouch that during the time she worked as housekeeper under me , she was nothing less than dedicated and never allowed her professional priorities to be distracted . |
| 10 | He 'd had a real pimple when he arrived , but during the time he took to find and bribe an official to provide the documents , the blemish had healed , . |
| 11 | During the time he 'd been talking , Kemp had scarcely once taken his eyes from Nina 's face . |
| 12 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 13 | During the time I knew him , he never took acid as he was very much afraid of it , and counselled other people against it in the sense that he felt it might disturb them psychologically , and felt that 's what might happen to him |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | During the time I spent at home I seem to have eaten nothing but apples and , if I am to be believed , an inordinate number of them . |
| 16 | ‘ Did you go out of the room at all between the time you arrived and , say , a quarter to ten ? ’ |
| 17 | Others began to react badly to various chemicals at about the time they developed candidiasis . |
| 18 | EVOLVING humanoids grew more intelligent at about the time they began using tools to hunt ; this finding has encouraged anthropologists to speculate that it was tool use that made intelligence particularly adaptive . |
| 19 | ‘ At about the time we finished making The Knack , ’ said Richard Lester , ‘ I bought the book of How I Won the War , by Patrick Ryan , and started work with Charles Wood on a screenplay , with Michael in mind as the lead . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not talking about the time we spent in bed . |
| 21 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 22 | He added that he was concerned about the time it took for the incident to be reported to the Inspectorate of Pollution and the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . |
| 23 | Using what little facts as she could chronologically find Dei then placed a perspective on this through ’ reading about the time she lived in and finding out about women 's lives in the 17th century Rome . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | Then Kier tells us about the time she saw a UFO . |
| 26 | On the other hand , there was something unbeatably creepy about the time I walked into a man 's bathroom at the very beginning of an affair and saw a bottle of ‘ scruffing lotion ’ by his basin . |
| 27 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's about the time I turned into a pig ! ’ he said . |
| 29 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
| 30 | About the time I started me tape |