Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] all [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You stayed with her for all that time . |
| 2 | Coming face to face with him after all this time had been a shock ; she had not known quite how she would react . |
| 3 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am just so relieved we are on the verge of getting a much more sensible system of payment to them after all this time . ’ |
| 5 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 6 | 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 . |