Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't loud and she could n't distinguish anything he said , but during the time she was in the closet she could hear it droning on , with breaks here and there when her mother must be speaking . |
| 2 | 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 , . |
| 3 | There will be a few overcast or windless days when the batteries will not be adequately recharged and a traditional generator will have to be called upon , but in the time they are charging , wind generators and solar panels will easily pay for themselves in saved fuel costs . |
| 4 | Of course that is n't all that 's involved in doing physics , not at all — there are other aspects of actually having ideas about physics , but in the time they will see some pattern emerging within that experiment . |
| 5 | But in the time it takes me to do this , the incoming train has reached the other end of the station platform . |
| 6 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |
| 7 | but from the time they moved in she noticed red squirrels . |
| 8 | The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others . |
| 9 | ‘ Some of them were , as a matter of fact , but at the time they did n't have the signs to tell them so . ’ |
| 10 | The religious wounds he opened up have never again entirely healed ; but at the time they literally tore the country in two . |
| 11 | But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole . |
| 12 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 13 | ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club . |
| 14 | ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club . |
| 15 | ( Perhaps it was a little strange , Alice thought later , but at the time she was not surprised . ) |
| 16 | But at the time she had no awareness of any such details , though her senses missed none of them . |
| 17 | But at the time he was glad to leave . |
| 18 | Lewis treasured this conversation in after years , but at the time he found it disconcerting and annoying . |
| 19 | But at the time he had no one with the expertise to guide him , and was very easily influenced by the persuasive arguments of the last person he spoke to on any given subject . |
| 20 | By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't see how anybody can pick up a guitar nowadays and not give some credit to Jimi Hendrix because , at the time — people do n't remember this — but at the time he came out , people were ready to give up the guitar and go onto other instruments . |
| 22 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |
| 23 | I love Lucy , but at the time he was more important to me than she was , in one sense . |
| 24 | Later , when lucidity returned to him , the recollection of that made him blush and cringe , but at the time he did not care . |
| 25 | ‘ They 're divorced now , apparently , and Paul 's married to someone else , but at the time he was going to divorce Sonia and marry me . |
| 26 | And I do n't know how , what 's happened about it now but at the time he was still having to pay for it |
| 27 | But at the time I took her , the bushes had grown across the path , and we got stuck , with her widow 's weeds entangled in branches and thorns until she could move no more . |
| 28 | ‘ But at the time I do n't think Kylie or anybody else had any idea of the phenomenal success she would have . |
| 29 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 30 | But at the time I had not realised what it was . |