Example sentences of "in the [noun] [det] the time " in BNC.

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1 But when you start your course you wo n't be grubbing about in the soil all the time , will you ?
2 It would come up in the conversation all the time , ‘ So you 've been separated from your husband and you have no boyfriends ? ’ — No — ‘ Are n't you interested in having boyfriends ? ’ — No — Because she was man-mad she could n't understand why I was n't .
3 His wife was lurking in the basement all the time Eleanor was there , so that he did not feel safe getting close .
4 ‘ Was he in the kitchen all the time we were talking to Miss Harker ? ’
5 ‘ He was helping in the kitchen all the time fetching and carrying .
6 Inexperienced fighters are apt to stay in the centre all the time , making it easy for an opponent to strike , as it is nearly akin to hitting a statue .
7 But the people who go out in the cold all the time .
8 I hate having to sit down in the toilet all the time .
9 A too-heavy friend will put Jane up in the air all the time until they learn to balance their weight by sitting in different positions .
10 Sex was in the air all the time .
11 You read in the papers all the time about girls being raped and murdered , and you do n't want it to happen to you , so you try to cut down the odds .
12 I could have kept on and on , but I just got tired of the crowds , the people getting in the way all the time .
13 I think it 's almost an impossibility to stamp out deformed genes , new defective genes are arising in the population all the time .
14 Otherwise I 'd be in the house all the time .
15 The parents bought them all one day , the whole lot of them , and we all just played like mad in the house all the time .
16 I , I mean I , I , I w I could n't say that I would be happy being in the house all the time .
17 Well , I 'd just like to say , about the lady who kept her hat on in the house all the time , and if someone called that she did n't like , she would say I 'm just going out .
18 Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care .
19 The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out .
20 The woman was older than me , a certain rock star 's girlfriend , an American who was in the shop all the time , obviously at a bit of a loose end while her boyfriend was touring .
21 She 's in the shop all the time !
22 And they 've got this doberman or something that barks all the time like , and it 's allowed i in the garden and it sits in the garden all the time and all the rest of it !
23 Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home .
24 There 's lots of power in the sail all the time and so you will have to remain agile .
25 I was here in the city all the time ; watching its every move while it — and you — thought I was disporting myself in sunnier climes . ’
26 Her husband only had one leg , and he used to sit in the corner all the time and wave his stick at you if he thought you were pinching anything .
27 She looked aghast , tried to defend her view and then grew apologetic saying that newspaper offices were n't like others , the most extraordinary things turned up in the post all the time and it was reflex to laugh them off and throw them away .
28 ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said .
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