Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun sg] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time . |
| 2 | Mr. Clark had to get a bricklayer to repair the walls that were broken and he complained that although the schoolmaster was in attendance the whole time , the boys had made it worse than it was before . |
| 3 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 4 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 5 | We went to the christening and my heart was in my mouth it was on edge the whole time . |
| 6 | Never mind Tuesday I was at placement the whole time and we sort of |