Example sentences of "[pers pn] all [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did it take you all that time to invent this story and to select your wardrobe from the charity shops ? ’ he asked with sinister softness . |
| 2 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you all this time , Jane , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's a hell of a burden to have carried around with you all this time , ’ Luke said feelingly . |
| 5 | I did n't wonder why she 'd taken to using a typewriter when her last messages to me were handwritten , and I did n't ask myself how Edouard could have talked to me all that time without mentioning there was an envelope for me . ’ |
| 6 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 7 | ‘ It has taken me all this time to get to the position where I can call people up on the phone go out to dinner or to the cinema . |
| 8 | " You do n't want me , " Edward repeated , " if you did , you 'd have been with me all this time . |
| 9 | He saves his monthly salary slips , and his bank statements and cheque stubs , and reads through them all each time he adds another item , entranced by the complex passage of money through his hands . |
| 10 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 11 | Yeah she had n't done them all this time . |
| 12 | So Maureen had known him all that time . |
| 13 | And indeed , where was Brother Jerome , and why had no word been heard from him and nothing seen of him all this time ? |
| 14 | You looked after her all that time and you 're still looking after her . ’ |
| 15 | It had taken her all this time to put her life back together , and now it looked as if it might be turned completely upside down again , and all because of Julius ! |
| 16 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 17 | The battledress was very good , I mean the army seemed to wore it all that time so er we had it for several years and we had to press that every day , thick material , very heavy . |
| 18 | would you feel you 'd not want to do it all that time then Belinda ? |
| 19 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 20 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
| 21 | Had he been following us all this time . |