Example sentences of "about [art] time [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Direct light came onto the sill and jambs of the embrasure at about the time when the noises of wheels and voices from the street were at their loudest . |
2 | They laugh about the time when Colin was making love with a girlfriend and Bella , in the room next door , heard her moan that her feet were cold . |
3 | I 'm reminded of the story about the time when a British Rail advertising contract was up for grabs . |
4 | He also noted that it was at about the time when Prince Albert , the Prince Consort , opened the Royal College of Chemistry , the precursor to Imperial College , that he also opened the new Grimsby dock . |
5 | It was not a fun place any more and doors were already slamming shut to the hundreds of young hopefuls hanging around outside the studio gates about the time when Nicholson began his search for work . |
6 | At about the time when Becquerel was working on the radiation from uranium , G. T. Beatson , a surgeon in Glasgow , observed that the inoperable breast cancers of three patients underwent regression after he had removed their ovaries . |
7 | He wrote to Hanns about the time when wigs had been needed for Dulcie 's ballet Fête galante , and one of the part-time dancers in the Ballet Club , a hairdresser by trade , offered to make them , from papier-mâché . |
8 | ‘ Oh , no , she 's going to tell me about the time when she arrived at King ‘ s Cross station , pregnant , with a wage-packet in her pocket and no home . ’ |
9 | ‘ There was a lot of talk about the time when she and Kate — ’ |
10 | Many go back more than a decade — to about the time when massive asbestosis judgments first started to trigger claims against insurance policies written in the 1950s . |
11 | But when I was a nipper ( about the time when football was invented ) , I did support my local team Slough FC , and Tottenham Hotspur . |
12 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
13 | ‘ — that she 's got amnesia about the time when she nearly drowned , ’ Edward said . |
14 | Robert then spoke to my mother about the time when they were young . |
15 | Uncle used to tell me about the time when the primitive Methodists and the Wesley Methodists were joining up . |
16 | They were told by Jesus not to speculate about the time when God would bring in the kingdom in all its fullness , but , once they had received the Holy Spirit , they were to witness to Jesus in Jerusalem , Judaea , Samaria , and throughout the world ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
17 | By about the time when Belli published his Arie , this strophic form which Caccini had clearly distinguished from the solo madrigals in his Nuove musiche was overtaking the madrigal in popularity and quickly surpassed it . |
18 | I chose to end the period about the time when the role of the Railway was beginning to be superseded by buses , lorries and private cars . |
19 | aware of it at the time , at or about the time when the instruction was given |
20 | people used to talk about a time when the volcano also spat flames and rocks into the sky , like the strangers ' guns , when the black strand on the northern promontory of the island was formed by the mountain 's spewing . |