Example sentences of "in [adj] [art] time [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 2 | Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it . |
| 3 | Why , in all the time she 'd known him he had never said the words . |
| 4 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 5 | In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before . |
| 6 | Bill Service , Personnel Manager states ‘ In all the time she has been in the Mill , she was never late of absent until February 1987 when she unfortunately slipped while coming to work and sustained a dislocated elbow . ’ |
| 7 | In all the time you 've been in the flats ? |
| 8 | In all the time you 've played with us , we 've never played a Mystery with Christ in it . ’ |
| 9 | Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him . |
| 10 | I do n't think that in all the time I 'd known Jessica , I 'd ever seen her cry . |
| 11 | You know , in all the time I 've worked here there has never been one single incidence of staff theft . |
| 12 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 13 | In all the time I have been writing the bass analysis column , I can not remember receiving any requests for the very influential playing of John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and now I get two in the same month . |
| 14 | But I think I may have to extend it — just like the politicians — because I have n't achieved anything in all the time I have been in my new home . |
| 15 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 16 | In all the time he had know Joe , he had never seen anyone else in his room ; indeed he had never seen him in company , except at the meetings of the IRB . |
| 17 | Our descent was made in one-fifth the time it had taken us to climb to our record-breaking altitude . |