Example sentences of "time she [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time she met the young ( Sir ) Edwin Lutyens [ q.v. ] , also a native of West Surrey , and together they drove around the narrow lanes in her dogcart , sketching and photographing details that appealed to them : a buttressed wall , a patterned chimney , the angle of a building which , although the result of chance , was pleasing in design . |
| 2 | She was panting hard by the time she saw the narrow white ribbon that was the road to Coton . |
| 3 | For the first time she saw the red tin container he had been hiding behind his back . |
| 4 | By the time she reached the front door the house , she knew , had to be hers for the summer . |
| 5 | The first time she discovered the awful mess he had deliberately left in the kitchen , Beth was determined she would not be used as a skivvy . |
| 6 | She said the word Chepén several times , as though she was speaking to a particularly stupid servant , Tolambo , too , the Hacienda Tolambo , and at the same time she made a circling motion with her hand , ending up with her finger pointed at the road ahead and the jagged peaks of the cordillera disembodied in a ragged mist hole . |
| 7 | A frisson of fear scorched down Robyn 's spine and for the first time she recognised the potential danger of her situation . |
| 8 | By the time she wound the scarlet sash around her waist once more , miniaturized digital weapons hooded her fingers like so many baroque thimbles . |
| 9 | For the first time she felt a faint stirring of compassion for her own mother , whose obsession with her appearance , shopping , flirtation and gossip Julia had despised for as long as she could remember . |
| 10 | Despite these reservations she thought that it was a good film but at the same time she upheld a longstanding tradition in Socialist Worker of avoiding any discussion of what a ‘ good film ’ might be . |
| 11 | She was scarlet in the face and perspiring profusely by the time she entered the old gentleman 's room . |
| 12 | During this time she travelled the French countryside , and the result was an exhibition in 1989 which sold out instantly . |