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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] all the time " in BNC.

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1	I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship .
2	I thought my god I use Pampers all the time
3	‘ I 've got all the time in the world . ’
4	you fin you finish at half five you do oh yes , but me , I have to wait all the time till half four minus one hour longer that is .
5	It has always been my ‘ extremism ’ or my ‘ unpreparedness to compromise ’ , even though of course I have to compromise all the time .
6	So that perhaps all I have done in twenty-five years is to find out something which I have known all the time .
7	She was also advised that she should continue to try to reduce weight and should not return to her work ( which involved standing all the time ) until she had been seen in the Outpatient Clinic in six weeks time .
8	According to Walken 's script , Elv is 57 years old , looks completely different , is a health nut who eats fish all the time , and is getting ready to come back .
9	fleeing er Claire because she keeps scratching all the time .
10	‘ Women are usually the weak ones who get rescued all the time . ’
11	And you 've had all the time in the world it takes to dial seven digits .
12	‘ You 've had all the time I can give , ’ he said tightly .
13	She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained .
14	Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room .
15	You have to reinforce all the time the need for them to listen to one another , to show interest in what each other has to say , to respect one another 's views …
16	We 've got all the time in the world . ’
17	As Carter opened the door Munro added , ‘ We 've got all the time in the world , Jack .
18	They seemed to dance all the time with their own group of friends or relatives .
19	Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right .
20	‘ They go sailing all the time . ’
21	‘ They kept praying all the time ! ’
22	They had quarrelled all the time and his mum had slammed out and left all the washing-up in the sink which he and Gary had to do when they ran out of plates .
23	She seemed distressed , ‘ I mean Balbinder , he used to just sit by the telly , even now he still … he wants toys … he does n't want to do the things , he wants to do all the time what he wants to do … ’
24	I think it stays open all the time now .
25	The name must have stuck in his mind because that 's what he keeps muttering all the time . ’
26	But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ?
27	He kept moving all the time , on his toes with his weight perfectly balanced , just as he 'd been taught , down at the gymnasium , every Saturday and every Wednesday for the past five years , times when everyone thought he was busy doing something else .
28	He had to find all the time he could to write the play , even if it meant neglecting other matters , not least because it would be his first composition since the award of the Nobel Prize .