Example sentences of "[be] [verb] most [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 2 | ‘ But I do n't know where I 'm heading most of the time and there just was n't time to be together . |
| 3 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't hear what they were saying most of the time , ’ Omi said , as Erika ran her eye down the list of calls written in Omi 's shaky , old-fashioned script . |
| 5 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 6 | That 's not a bridge that 's marked on the map , it 's a causeway that 's covered most of the time . |
| 7 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 8 | Possibly because everything was so new and different that the impressions could not be fully absorbed , and also perhaps because I was tired most of the time . |
| 9 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 10 | I was sleeping most of the time , I did n't want to eat , I was n't hungry . |
| 11 | All the same I do n't suppose you 'd keep me on my salary unless I was working most of the time , would you ? |