Example sentences of "but [det] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing . |
| 2 | They use the handouts you give them — but half the time they put some snide twist on the story . |
| 3 | Marshall is called Chief Accountant , but half the time he does n't really know what 's happening . |
| 4 | And also , but half the time it 's the problem arises because it 's , the machines gone to personnel without something , and then we 've got to spend time either chasing it up or getting another bit or going round in circles . |
| 5 | But all the time they are hardening their muscles and sharpening their wits , so that the pretence of being grown-up helps them to grow up in earnest . ’ |
| 6 | But all the time they forage they are alert , ready to withdraw instantly at the first hint of danger . |
| 7 | But all the time , he was aware of the shutter in his memory ; behind it , monsters prowled . |
| 8 | We are like Hans Christian Anderson 's tale of the Emperor who believed he was clothed in the finest garments — but all the time he was naked . |
| 9 | But all the time my mind was working . |
| 10 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 11 | The Treasury , as I say , undermined it to some extent , but all the time there was duplication going on . |
| 12 | Stand around the fire , talk to the night-watchman but all the time taking a risk that the sergeant might have doubled back on you , to see if you were working your beat . |
| 13 | But all the time we 're earwiggin' to Lee and his mates and what they thought of the show . |
| 14 | But all the time he tries to regain control and meet the love of his life , Susan ’ . |
| 15 | But all the time he himself was carrying his own torch for a lost love . |
| 16 | But all the time he found his eyes fixed to the rear mirror , looking for a sign of pursuit . |
| 17 | But all the time — from the moment I began to speak , in fact — I knew this was partly a lie : I enjoyed the intrigue of politics , the excitement , the feeling , if only in a limited way , of power . |
| 18 | But all the time , the answer was right under their noses . |
| 19 | She spent a year working for the writer Charles Morgan , but all the time her real purpose was somehow to work with Eliot himself . |
| 20 | But all the time there would be this comforting regularity beneath the surface ; the sound of rattling dice would have been banished from fundamental physics . |
| 21 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 22 | ‘ But all the time , ’ Rosenthal writes : |
| 23 | It turned out that my suspicions were unfounded , but all the time my memories were coming back . |
| 24 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 25 | The game went on , but all the time the Queen was arguing , and shouting ‘ Off with his head ! ’ or ‘ Off with her head ! ’ |
| 26 | But all the time I thought of Estella . |
| 27 | He bullied and punished me , not two or three times a week , not once or twice a day , but all the time . |
| 28 | He worked as hard as ever on her farm , but all the time there was a deep ache inside him . |
| 29 | But all the time he was looking about him , noting things . |
| 30 | First it was kings and archbishops with some offstage divine tinkering , then it was the march of ideas and the movements of masses , then little local events which mean something bigger , but all the time it 's connections , progress , meaning , this led to this , this happened because of this . |