Example sentences of "and [adj] [art] time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 2 | He 'd tell me things there , and I 'd get so excited about whatever he said was going to happen , and half the time he 'd just made it up . ’ |
| 3 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 4 | ‘ We sat next to each other during two hours and all the time we talked . |
| 5 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 6 | Adam thought of himself and Rufus as being wild and laid-back at the same time , equally like that , young adventurers with all the world before them and all the time they wanted to do what they liked with . |
| 7 | And all the time she knew it in no way matched the reckoning , whose day could not much longer be postponed . |
| 8 | She went slowly back to the drawing-room to collect her sketch-pad and pencils , and all the time she kept telling herself that this was a really stupid thing to do . |
| 9 | She met Penry 's favourite sister Kit and her husband , Reid Livesey , ate some supper , laughed and chatted with more of Penry 's friends , and all the time she burned with the need to ask Penry what he was playing at , why he 'd thrown down his unexpected announcement like a gauntlet in front of his voluptuous ex-wife . |
| 10 | He rammed his stiffened baton in and out of her burrow , and all the time she urged him to greater efforts . |
| 11 | And all the time he stared mercilessly at the student . |
| 12 | And all the time he knew Cadalora would make his move on the last lap . |
| 13 | He dressed quickly , all the time arguing fiercely with himself , working out possible conversations with his mother , and what he would say to her , the devastating arguments he would present … and all the time he knew that she would say her piece and he would agree . |
| 14 | And all the time he had been asking ‘ When can I go home ? ’ |
| 15 | Things did go wrong … she 'd trusted in the powers of justice and compassion before , and she 'd lost her mother … she 'd trusted Mortimer with her friendship and he 'd betrayed her … trusted Guy with the whole of her heart and soul last night and all the time he 'd been laughing behind her back at the ‘ sexy redhead ’ from Chesters … |
| 16 | When I saw Oliver running away so fast , round all the corners , bumping into walls … and all the time I had the handkerchief in my pocket … |
| 17 | And all the time I kept up the visualization . |
| 18 | And all the time I pondered upon the enigma of Mrs Rumney . |
| 19 | Many of the people on my courses on dying , for example , had never really come to terms with the inevitability of death in their own lives , and many a time we had to stop to allow distressed and upset people to leave the room . |
| 20 | ‘ And the thing was , it got funnier and funnier every time he did it , ’ laughs Hislop . |