Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [det] time i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
2 | I just leaked like mad each time I fed Conrad from the other side . |
3 | And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide . |
4 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
5 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
6 | But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’ |
7 | I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever . |
8 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
9 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
10 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
11 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |