Example sentences of "in [art] time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had changed so much in the time they 'd spent together . |
| 2 | In the time they had been kept waiting , Patrick calculated , the Bonnard Renault could have covered at least five hundred miles of autobahn . |
| 3 | By the time Ellwood had done with Piper , got as much as he could in the time they dared allow , Carey had gone . |
| 4 | In the time we had been there I had learnt scarcely more than the theatre and the streets about our lodgings . |
| 5 | In the time she spent in the UK , Catja was mated to Ch. |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Bissett 's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device . |
| 10 | He won the Commonwealth and European titles , married and became a father in the time he lived with his particular pain . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | In the time it took me to turn my head , Ewen Mackay came upright , and a hand moved — incredibly — towards a pocket . |
| 19 | In the time it took to flicker across her vision , a card appeared in it , depicting a young knight . |
| 20 | In the time it took to negotiate the funds Rothmans came to an arrangement with Sedgefield . ’ |
| 21 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 22 | er reading and I ha , I could n't hold of enough of the material in the time I 'd got to write the essay so I would n't have studied enough , so I did this one on machines , and I got hold of two good books . |
| 23 | There followed as fierce and nasty a little campaign as I can remember in the time I spent with the health service . |
| 24 | He just had time for a quick coffee ( it was now or never ) , and in the time I took to refill the kettle and put coffee into two clean mugs , I 'd told him . |
| 25 | This distracting racket pitched in every time I came out of a corner and put on the power in the Formula First single-seat racing car I was driving . |
| 26 | That brought Nottingham within range and in no time they produced a broadside which knocked Northampton sideways . |
| 27 | In no time he had calls from husky security officers who liked to be called ‘ Marcia ’ . |
| 28 | His style was light and friendly ; in no time he had built up a big following among the viewers . |
| 29 | In no time it looked just the part . |