Example sentences of "all [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only purpose of this sweet liquid is to please insects so greatly that they become addicted to it and devote all possible time during the flowering season to collecting it . |
| 2 | He saves his monthly salary slips , and his bank statements and cheque stubs , and reads through them all each time he adds another item , entranced by the complex passage of money through his hands . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All that time , wrote Harsnet , Pearsall stood stiffly there without saying a word . |
| 5 | And Lee would most likely be all that time in Jubilee Wood , him and Caspar . |
| 6 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 7 | He sits in the kitchen all that time . |
| 8 | It 's funny how many stars seem to harbour similar buried desires perhaps it 's all that time they spend waiting on tables before they get their big break . |
| 9 | ‘ I wonder what he thought about , down the pothole all that time , ’ Gaily said . |
| 10 | In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash . |
| 11 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 12 | However , during all that time he records that he was seldom free from pain . |
| 13 | However , he reflected that it was now twenty years since he had been ejected from the church on ‘ Black Bartholomew 's Day ’ , and during all that time , by God 's mercy , he , and many others had been kept in relative ‘ peace ’ and freedom to serve the Lord , despite all the efforts of the Church and State to silence them . |
| 14 | He described One journey to the source of the James River in 1738 in a letter to Collinson , ‘ … over and between the mountains in many very crooked turnings and windings ; in which I travelled 1,100 miles in five weeks , having rested but one day in all that time … |
| 15 | And all that time , Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times , when she was alone and longing to ‘ break down ’ , to clutch her breast with a fierce answering force to keep the black horror from spurting forth . |
| 16 | I can not believe that that man Candless stayed on top of his car all that time . |
| 17 | Even the dimmest goon is going to realize there 's something queer going on in all that time . |
| 18 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
| 19 | All that time and space without any shape is frightening , and life on a permanent weekend is no fun . |
| 20 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 21 | They 'd say ‘ But what were you doing all that time , Bina ? |
| 22 | They 'd made a vow , you see , all that time ago … |
| 23 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 24 | Often we 'd stalk a herd for days on end , and all that time we 'd never even catch a glimpse . |
| 25 | Rabbits do n't store food so it had clearly gone all that time without intake . |
| 26 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 27 | All that time , all those years . |
| 28 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 29 | You know , it probably sounds weird , but after you 've been on the road all that time , you kind of forget whether you 're any good or not . |
| 30 | I looked after Papa all that time you went off with Arkwright , and I 've tried to look after your children for you now . |