Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [det] the time " in BNC.
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1 | The most important factors to consider when you employ a food service designer are that he is a professional , has integrity of purpose , is working for the client all the time , and has the client 's immediate financial interest at heart , plus the continued operational interest in the facility when it is opened . |
2 | Cos if we put sort of ten thousand away the interest would be paying for the fees all the time would n't it ? |
3 | ‘ It 's difficult for us to understand why everybody wants to talk about the Russians all the time , ’ says ballerina Fiona Chadwick . |
4 | A classmate said : ‘ We used to talk about the affair all the time at first . |
5 | They think , they seem to think that we want to think about the election all the time . |
6 | You think about the person all the time , I think about you all the time , that 's what you say . |
7 | Goin' on about the seats all the time she was . |
8 | Moran was in a rage about tools and a barrow that had been left out in the rain and complained about how much money was being wasted heedlessly about the house all the time . |
9 | He 's in all the typical things a young man who 's too quick does , that 's fly off the road all the time , but that 's part of the normal learning curve , and I think that he 'll be trouble for every team that does n't have him in their actual car at the time . |
10 | At home , while Ministers are careful not to use such words as ‘ green shoots ’ in public , they use them off the record all the time to political journalists , who dutifully pass the message on to the reading public . |
11 | They were moving nearer the house all the time and by one o'clock they had finished the field . |
12 | The swan will keep just ahead of the Gruncher all the time , driving him crazy with my smell , and in the end the swan will fly straight over the big deep lake and the Gruncher , now travelling at terrific speed , will follow right behind . |
13 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
14 | Unless you have women 's bodies floating down this part of the river all the time . ’ |
15 | By continually signalling attentiveness and responsiveness to the signals of the other — it is infuriating to talk to someone who stares out of the window all the time . |
16 | Maybe Rocco 's just hitting to the centre of the greens all the time . |
17 | They played around it for a while , keeping the rhythm of the music all the time , postponing the pleasure of contact . |
18 | But learn to use " he or she " or , more elegantly , " they , them or theirs ' , as appropriate rather than the male form of the pronoun all the time . |
19 | Burrow systems can be very complicated and some rabbits may never be cornered since they are able to move round and round the burrow systems — staying ahead of the ferret all the time and without the slightest inclination or pressure to leave the burrow . |
20 | You ca n't be actually following the whole of the action all the time , cos you have to make sure you 're not burning a hole in the shirt . |
21 | You do n't really need to , but it 's , there usually is n't time to cover it , cos you 've got other things , but it gives you a much better feel for it if you , if you see the other side of the picture all the time . |
22 | A good art lesson must stretch the mind and imagination of the children all the time , just as it must stretch your minds and imagination . |
23 | Perhaps they had been on the other side of the ditch all the time and were hidden by it now . |
24 | And I think for too long , we 've listened to the libertarians who want to think of the rights of the criminal all the time , and er , and do n't worry too much about the victim . |
25 | So you 're still reducing the cost of the product all the time , er and you can still retain the people . |
26 | The invisible writing , the lineaments of me , which had been there beneath the surface all the time , became manifest . |
27 | For many people it is rather demoralising to finish a long way behind the leaders all the time and so pursuit racing is an attempt to provide a handicapping system . |
28 | He must have been hiding in the back room behind the stage all the time . |
29 | What we plead with the government all the time is allow us a regime , a financial regime , that is reasonable and stable in order to do that . |
30 | They ran through field after field , with the hounds all the time slowly gaining on the fox . |