Example sentences of "in [art] time [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 2 | What I 'm driving at is , did in your , in the time you were there ever the , the workers ever get into a situation where they wanted to come out in support of another dispute in another place of work ? |
| 3 | She stared out of the window and thought she could write a book in the time it was taking them to get to Nice , which really was just around the corner . |
| 4 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 5 | Er but we dealt with quite a few serious accidents in the time I was there . |
| 6 | In no time they were installed at a table by the window and being attended by a stately woman with an enormous bosom and a monument of granite-coloured hair . |
| 7 | Formalities did not take long , and in no time they were riding upwards in the lift and then walking along a corridor to the door of Ven 's suite . |
| 8 | In no time we were moored securely a few inches from a slippery ledge , surging in a gentle swell with ropes secured to convenient rock spurs . |
| 9 | In no time we were a mile from either bank … and the daytrippers were thoroughly enjoying themselves.Even one couple who should have been cruising down the Seine were happy with the alternative : |
| 10 | In no time he was raving about free love and ‘ Fat Maria ’ Who ‘ smiles with pleasure whenever I help her out of her underwear under the blankets at night . ’ |
| 11 | Then asked the name of her hotel , and in no time he was pulling up outside it , and Fabia knew that one of the most pleasant interludes of her life except for the ‘ alternator ’ trauma that went with it — was over . |
| 12 | In no time I was rolling with the best of them and filling the intervals between wines by chewing a morsel of cheese . |
| 13 | It seemed that in no time she was forced indoors by huge raindrops that appeared to have come from nowhere . |
| 14 | Anyhow , ’ he continued in his usual exuberant fashion , ‘ we were standing right outside Oliphants ’ Café , so I suggested coffee , and in no time she was telling me how she now lived in London , and had a flat there , and … ’ |