Example sentences of "in [art] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have committed the heresy of being uncommitted to the right political dogma — or worse still being a political atheist may not mean the death penalty , but it sure is a heinous crime in the times we live in . |
| 2 | He seemed especially interested in the times he had Vulcan out at night , as he did so often last year . |
| 3 | He had changed so much in the time they 'd spent together . |
| 4 | In the time they had been kept waiting , Patrick calculated , the Bonnard Renault could have covered at least five hundred miles of autobahn . |
| 5 | Knowledge-based innovations differ from all others in the time they take , in their casualty rates , and in their predictability , as well as in the challenges they pose to entrepreneurs . |
| 6 | By the time Ellwood had done with Piper , got as much as he could in the time they dared allow , Carey had gone . |
| 7 | They are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 8 | Kerr said : ‘ We are so pleased with what has been achieved by John and Mick in the time they have been here . |
| 9 | In the time we had been there I had learnt scarcely more than the theatre and the streets about our lodgings . |
| 10 | In the time she spent in the UK , Catja was mated to Ch. |
| 11 | She herself had never aspired to a career , finding complete satisfaction in acting as her husband 's typist and research assistant in the time she had left over from gardening and housekeeping . |
| 12 | If Isabel can include in the time she spends with him developing his skills for a propensity for being slightly more economic in his travel and hospitality arrangements , I guess we 'd be even more pleased . |
| 13 | in those days like they do in the time you 've been talking about ? |
| 14 | Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ? |
| 15 | In the time you have at college , you can not alter them . |
| 16 | The answering of each individual question in the time you have allowed must be planned like a military exercise . |
| 17 | Quality matters more than quantity in the time you spend together . |
| 18 | No-one left the school unless the Headmaster was throwing them out and Endill could n't remember that ever happening in the time he had been there . |
| 19 | The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there . |
| 20 | Bissett 's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device . |
| 21 | He won the Commonwealth and European titles , married and became a father in the time he lived with his particular pain . |
| 22 | The PROFITBOSS finds profit in the time he finds for people . |
| 23 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
| 24 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 25 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 26 | We are told he could outpace a pack of hounds and catch a fleeing fox with ease , and run from Porth to Llantrisant in the time it took his mother to boil a kettle . |
| 27 | In the time it took Nick to arrive Harriet forced herself to wash and change into a clean sweatshirt , though the most mundane of everyday actions seemed a huge effort . |
| 28 | At the height of the inflation , prices were rising by the hour so that the price of a meal in a restaurant could rise by as much as 25 per cent in the time it took to eat it ! |
| 29 | In the time it took you to write this letter you could have stripped the guitar down , sprayed the switch with contact cleaner and fitted new strings — you do change your strings occasionally , I assume ? |
| 30 | In the time it took me to turn my head , Ewen Mackay came upright , and a hand moved — incredibly — towards a pocket . |