Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 They were there checking the whole time .
2 Question again proposed , That the Bill be now read the Third time .
3 I beg to move , That the Bill be now read the Third time .
4 I mean when we 're walking we are actually falling the whole time , but insects are not like that , they do n't stand on three and pick up the other three .
5 Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time .
6 ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking .
7 The next candidate , Richard Baxter , was unanimously chosen the first time they heard him preach .
8 It was almost destroyed the last time . ’
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