Example sentences of "[art] time [pers pn] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm the advertisements themselves called a great caused a great furore because erm Tampax was a fairly new invention and because of the sexual and social mores of the time they were n't considered very nice . |
| 2 | Since friars were the pre-eminent preachers of the time they were particularly enlisted to explain , in public and private sermons , the legitimacy of the king 's claim on the French crown and to stress his almost superhuman efforts to avoid conflict ; preachers were to elaborate on French treachery , exposing their ‘ derogatory lies ’ . |
| 3 | Most of the time we 're either sitting outside the head 's office or we are either fighting or we are either arguing with them . |
| 4 | ‘ Except that we ca n't spend every minute of the time we 're together making love , can we ? |
| 5 | At the time we were also tracking the development of desktop publishing , a newly created use for personal computers . |
| 6 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |
| 7 | Yeah , that was like me , I mean like I 'd , I was n't bad like , cos all the time I was just wearing like polo necks or like shirts with high collars and stuff cos it was n't actually on my neck it was just like on my , this one . |
| 8 | At the time I was out detecting with the Weston Historical Research and Detecting Association , of which I am a member . |
| 9 | Oh , I can see now that it was unworthy and beside the point but at the time I was so exasperated with the man and his perfidy that any ammunition would have done . |
| 10 | ‘ They drive you mad , ’ I said , thinking of the time I was about to murder my husband with the pressure-cooker , ‘ did he do exercises in bed ? ’ |
| 11 | All the time I 'm either bingeing ( in secret ) or doing loads of exercise ; I really feel desperate to lose weight because I 'm going to be a bridesmaid soon , and I do n't want to look like a splodge at my brother 's wedding . |
| 12 | the time I 'm not seeing him . |
| 13 | I just resent all the time I 'm not spending with you , ca n't you see that ? |
| 14 | The return trek can seem like a very long haul but all the effort seems well worthwhile by the time you 're comfortably sitting in the bar at the Sligachan Hotel cradling your glass of single malt . |
| 15 | ‘ There was I , feeling flattered at the attention you were paying me , when all the time you were just testing me out to see that I would n't dry up on the air ! |
| 16 | Allowing for the time he 's already spent in cutody , that means Rachael could be freed this autumn . |
| 17 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |
| 18 | All the time he was either shouting or crying . |
| 19 | At the time he was badly thrown . |
| 20 | Kidd reflects that at the time he was not given the unqualified support by other members of P-E who felt that the search approach was still inappropriate for a consulting firm with resident consultants on client premises and that it could injure the firm 's consulting practice . |
| 21 | We suspect that he was flying in light aircraft to lonely fields in Essex or Suffolk , but the time he was nearly caught his passengers got away and we could n't prove anything . |
| 22 | As we know er Darwin published his great work in eighteen fifty nine cos he had to , he really did n't want to but was forced , but in eighteen seventy one he published another important book called the Descent of Man or Evolution in Relation to Sex and in this book Darwin established a principle , which a which at the time he was widely criticized and ridiculed and this was the principle of female choice . |
| 23 | For these considerable services he received nothing , his enemies using the time he was away to poison Francesco I Sforza against him , not least because they were jealous of the work on the chapel . |
| 24 | At the time he was hardly painting at all , concentrating on drawing and sculpting . |
| 25 | It would have meant nothing to that pervert to let her stay … he had wielded the knife , the cruel swine … telling her he regretted there was nothing for her when all the time he was still hiring people … examining her through that monocle as though he was God … |
| 26 | At the time he was still sculpting and he continued to carve his large heads , sometimes in polychrome , until 1915 or 1916 . |
| 27 | And I do n't know how , what 's happened about it now but at the time he was still having to pay for it |
| 28 | Later on this might have led to complaints about the possibility of corruption ; at the time it was simply seen as evidence that politicians were committing themselves fully to their work . |
| 29 | At the time it was widely believed that Sugar would not be returning to operational flying , as the following press release issued at the time seemed to indicate : |
| 30 | At the time it was widely held that the early parts of the visual system acted like a closed-circuit television , with the eye acting as the camera and the visual cortex acting as the TV monitor . |