Example sentences of "[prep] all that time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 2 | ‘ It was marvellous after all that time watching and waiting . |
| 3 | One would think that , after all that time , a movement that really desired increased pensions and had failed , would have changed its tactics … the stronger a movement becomes ‘ institutionally ’ the weaker it becomes as an instrument for the benefit of the people . |
| 4 | Similarly , we could follow up people 20 years on to assess the results of our child care work , but even if we could successfully trace them , is it right to contact them after all that time when their spouses and children may not know of their earlier histories ? |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't just stop loving someone after all that time — unfortunately , ’ she says . |
| 6 | After all that time the greengrocer 's hand was still clutching the fruit and it had n't decayed — the apple , I mean ; the greengrocer 's torso was quite rotten . |
| 7 | No , that came back after all that time erm , no this this was the call called The Birthday it was about a split in the future where she erm |
| 8 | But it should n't be after all that time . |
| 9 | Alice eventually said she 'd buy our house after all that time and said , and said well she 'd be right next door to her |
| 10 | When I fink of all that time 'e jus ' sat at the front door wiv 'is 'ead in 'is 'ands , I shudder . |
| 11 | One hundred and seventy years have passed since the proclamation of the Hatt-i-Sherif , and in the course of all that time a State like Serbia in Europe should have made a far greater civilisational , cultural and economic leap . |
| 12 | But throughout all that time the principles contained within the document have always cha remained the same . |
| 13 | However , during all that time he records that he was seldom free from pain . |
| 14 | However , he reflected that it was now twenty years since he had been ejected from the church on ‘ Black Bartholomew 's Day ’ , and during all that time , by God 's mercy , he , and many others had been kept in relative ‘ peace ’ and freedom to serve the Lord , despite all the efforts of the Church and State to silence them . |
| 15 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
| 16 | The episode occupied many millions of years and during all that time there were no deposits . |
| 17 | ‘ It is astounding that he was up there for all that time in such a busy area without anyone noticing , ’ said Det Insp Martyn Evans . |
| 18 | ‘ You stayed with her for all that time . |
| 19 | For all that time , I did n't want to write . |
| 20 | That meant he could have been sitting there , looking at her , for all that time . |
| 21 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |
| 22 | I have n't been in office systems for all that time . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 24 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 25 | well for all that time |
| 26 | You keep it on for all that time ? |
| 27 | In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash . |
| 28 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 29 | He described One journey to the source of the James River in 1738 in a letter to Collinson , ‘ … over and between the mountains in many very crooked turnings and windings ; in which I travelled 1,100 miles in five weeks , having rested but one day in all that time … |
| 30 | Even the dimmest goon is going to realize there 's something queer going on in all that time . |