Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | Computers believed their silences were ‘ no ’ answers — right half the time . |
2 | Er John it looks less defendable every time every time a real person opens their mouths John it becomes less and less defendable ? |
3 | In the case of the miller 's wife : ( She had not had so pleasant a time for many a long year ) |
4 | That 's only half the time it took me last time . |
5 | So half the time I felt like killing him , and I got agoraphobia , because I was so depressed . |
6 | Oh my chest hurts so much every time I cough like that . |
7 | Essex have to get through regional qualifiers at Old Loughtonians on March 27–28 , but Chelmsford coach Dick Clarke believes unity is all important at so crucial a time . |
8 | He could not have done so much in so brief a time . |
9 | It just goes so quick the time does n't it ? |
10 | Never before have I had so good a time or taken so little medicine . ’ |
11 | Well I went to work on the Saturday morning at six and we were dredging until half past twelve , then we would , then do repairs till five o'clock at night and then five o'clock at night , when the other crew had gone home , when I start to stay there then from five o'clock Saturday night till Monday morning six o'clock all the time just to keep watch on the dredger , I used to sleep mind you during part of the time and erm used to have a big old tortoise stove down the cabin and make good fire . |
12 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
13 | The world was quite difficult enough as it was without people going around trying to make it better all the time . |
14 | Two-year-olds are learning so much all the time — and are eager to learn more . |
15 | Seventy-five per cent of couples said sleeping together all the time was a turn-off . |
16 | Developing a ‘ collaborative classroom ’ did not mean suddenly insisting that everyone works together all the time ( as some teachers fear may happen if enthusiasm for ‘ group work ’ gets out of hand ) , but rather creating conditions which would allow the collective resources of the group to be used to support and enhance across the whole range of classroom activity . |
17 | But it did n't necessarily mean that they would stay together all the time the they may they may even fall out with one another . |
18 | So it did n't necessarily mean that you get a squad of riveters that would stayed together all the time , erm for various reasons , as I say they may have been , unfortunately some of them might even die and therefore you had to make up the squad again |
19 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
20 | We are together all the time for weeks and months on end . |
21 | ‘ Our side is n't the type you could send out every week with instructions just to knock it long all the time . |
22 | And clutches not necessarily all the time ? |
23 | The Prime Minister was singing softly to himself when the Collector came in and continued to do so all the time he was there . |
24 | So all the time you 're thinking that . |
25 | You know , so all the time you 're up here , like this , and then perhaps you stay to try and get some work finished before you go home , and as sure as fate , that 's the day when you promised to take somebody out , when you go home , and you 've forgotten about it . |
26 | So all the time you can see that water on it . |
27 | so all the time I 've got him |
28 | It 's a full time commitment er t and you if you are very if if you are er like say it 's so all the time , it 's difficult for her then to cease to be that , to be somebody else . |
29 | As I say , it does n't bother me constantly all the time , Doctor you know , it 's just I feel I was carrying some shopping down the road |
30 | But I mean I do get used to being on my own and then like I mean I say he 's there like the , the other morni he went down his mother 's and he did n't come back till three o'clock so he 's not there constantly all the time . |