Example sentences of "[prep] all [adj] time [pers pn] [vb past] " 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 | And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide . |
| 3 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 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 . |