Example sentences of "[det] the time she " in BNC.
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1 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
2 | All the time she is looked after . |
3 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
4 | All the time she dashed through the streets , fighting her way through the hubbub , Wilson looked for Mr Browning , knowing he must have heard by now and would surely be rushing to his wife 's side . |
5 | All the time she wildly imagines him being unfaithful to her in a thousand trivial ways . |
6 | And all the time she 's here it 's ‘ What can I do ? ’ and ‘ Can I do this ? ’ |
7 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
8 | All the time she was muttering under her breath , not articulating the words so they could be understood , or so it was even clear what language she was speaking . |
9 | If she had n't kept busy all the time she would have thought too much about James , and about Maggie . |
10 | You just have to be patient and allow her all the time she wants in which to ‘ say her piece ’ . |
11 | All the time she was glowering at her husband , the look of fury in her narrow black eyes completely at odds with the gentle action of her arms as she gathered the curd towards herself slowly . |
12 | She was foolishly irritated by the lack of warmth and the slowness of the coals to light and all the time she was asking herself if she was completely mad harbouring an escaped criminal in her kitchen . |
13 | Goin' on about the seats all the time she was . |
14 | My selfconfidence had been eroded because all the time she told me that I was a failure . |
15 | A great many things that other people did all the time she had never done . |
16 | All the time she was resolving not to raise her eyes , not to look at the bear . |
17 | All the time she was talking her thin hands stroked the silk of her dress . |
18 | She sang all the time she was dusting and polishing and when Mr Evans complained , ‘ Tweet , tweet , tweet , do you think you 're a bird , girl ? ’ she actually answered him back . |
19 | Its mother has given it all the time she can spare . |
20 | All the time she is in a mindless frenzy , he is thinking , comparing , and second-guessing . |
21 | Why , in all the time she 'd known him he had never said the words . |
22 | In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before . |
23 | He rammed his stiffened baton in and out of her burrow , and all the time she urged him to greater efforts . |
24 | All the time she had been in the house . |
25 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
26 | All the time she was saying crossly to herself , |
27 | All the time she prayed in desperation that the constables would discover something incriminating back in the flat : perhaps letters from Zbigniew or Tatyana Nowak , bloodstained gloves , she did not care . |
28 | All the time she had lain awake , it had been so quiet it had quite unnerved her . |
29 | She went slowly back to the drawing-room to collect her sketch-pad and pencils , and all the time she kept telling herself that this was a really stupid thing to do . |
30 | She turns and calls down the corridor for a guy named Malcolm and all the time she 's leaning hard against the door trying to break my foot . |