Example sentences of "in [adj] the time [pers pn] [vb past] " 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 | Why , in all the time she 'd known him he had never said the words . |
| 3 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 4 | In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I do n't think that in all the time I 'd known Jessica , I 'd ever seen her cry . |
| 7 | She did n't look at him , not once , not in all the time it took to complete her task . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Our descent was made in one-fifth the time it had taken us to climb to our record-breaking altitude . |