Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time . |
| 2 | This does not mean we have to put ourselves down all the time : this would just be false humility , which is another subtle form of pride . |
| 3 | Pressing S4 before or after this moment , or holding it down all the time , will have no effect on allowing the ball to pass the bat and scatter the stumps ! |
| 4 | It 's up and down all the time . |
| 5 | artery , it 's probably quite easy , the television set , then after that it 'll drop off obviously because the body is pulling the pressure down all the time , it does , okay , but if it was a vein ? |
| 6 | Then I began to wonder whether , by wearing a loose jacket and sitting down all the time , I could keep him from noticing . |
| 7 | Having to hold the button down all the time made it a bit awkward for looking out of the side window , but by craning her neck she could just manage to see the hole to the rear of the craft . |
| 8 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 9 | I 'm not having you running yourself down all the time ! |
| 10 | Incidentally , the idea of putting a compass in the seat recess with a seethrough window in the spraydeck is just plain daft ; apart from making you sick , looking down all the time would divert attention from where it matters , the sea . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh yes , up and down all the time … ’ |
| 12 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 13 | Is it that the fraudsters are the only section of society that is going to vote for the Conservatives er at the at the at the next election because certainly er the reputation of the city of London er is going down all the time because of the squalid frauds that are being perpetrated there a and the government is lagging behind er in catching up and in providing an effective regulatory framework er that 's that 's going to deal er with them . |
| 14 | Jackie 's ears are down all the time . |
| 15 | He 's an amazing player to watch , bordering on breaking down all the time . |
| 16 | See they got they 're head down all the time . |
| 17 | Depends if you 're down all the time or not |
| 18 | I 've been knuckling down all the time . |
| 19 | You have to pull it down or leave it down all the time because you always have to leave the light on there anyway |
| 20 | Yeah , I know but it 's just when she 's sort of having to sit down all the time . |
| 21 | Seems down all the time . |
| 22 | so what 's the position in the future , is it , are we going to have to go through that every time or ? |
| 23 | I live in a one-bedroomed flat with very little cupboard space and I 'm fed up with the piles of clothes and shoes I trip over all the time . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's the good weeding this 'ere if all that lot 's coming over all the time ? ’ |
| 25 | I think she 's going to always fall over all the time really ! |
| 26 | At first sight , the filter circuit may appear conventional but the presence of the diode D1 is unconventional and it seems as though it is going to be switched off all the time anyway , the anode ( a ) always being at zero potential . |
| 27 | Any so-called ‘ dirt ’ you may see on a piece of cotton wool after rubbing your skin with astringent or lotion may just be the remnants of make-up or skin cells , which are flaking off all the time . |
| 28 | They totally dissociated themselves from the Rowdies , who they thought of as kids , who , by mouthing off all the time , started trouble which was left to them to finish off . |
| 29 | ‘ It used to live on us , on the surface of our skin , and eventually followed our skin — which falls off all the time in minute flakes — so it now feeds away from us , on those fallen skin scales . |
| 30 | You know we have to fight them off all the time . |