Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subtraction from ‘ traditional ’ aid flows implied by Western Europe 's impassioned concern for East Europe has worried the Third World , as its diplomats make clear every time they find a receptive ear . |
| 2 | I mean half the time I think I do n't remember anything because er er , people are so busy blooming playing around and |
| 3 | Well I skip that every time ! |
| 4 | " You say that every time . " |
| 5 | ‘ You say that every time , ’ said Ilsa , winking at me as she pulled on white gloves : I 'll see you tomorrow and tell you everything ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 7 | Well the first crane I drove was a was only at that so I was stuck on one of them and I had to sling me grab all the time and this , this bridge come round and miss the bridge and go over it and rush it down to the hold . |
| 8 | ‘ I cry all the time , when I 'm happy , when I 'm sad , when I 'm making love . |
| 9 | It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life |
| 10 | The microcomputer should have a form of security e.g. by bolting it to a desk if it is to remain in one place all the time , perhaps next to the library catalogue . |
| 11 | ‘ I want all the time . ’ |
| 12 | Children younger than you die all the time . |
| 13 | I count all the time it 's happening . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I was influenced by AM radio all the time I was growing up , which was all the great '50s rock'n'roll , and I suppose I would have to include The Beatles in that . |
| 15 | I worry all the time in case they tell Mum . |
| 16 | It 's not that I 'm particularly unhappy with the shape of my body or with my image , it 's just that I worry all the time about what people think about me , what impression they are getting . |
| 17 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 18 | I think , I think that , I do n't think they smoke all the time upstairs , but like , in the summer , er , basically this place just had its windows and doors open all day long , every day . |
| 19 | He wrote that he was lying on a concrete floor ; he mentioned acute rheumatism , chronic bronchitis ; ‘ My ribs are tight , I have a lot of fever , I cough all the time . |
| 20 | You 're pretending that you 're speaking to somebody and just speak all the time . |
| 21 | The kind of place where you can quite easily forget the day of the week — unless you want to take in the Friday disco — let alone the time of day . |
| 22 | Most page printers will come with a selection which will invariably include a serif face such a Times , a sans serif face like Helvetica and , often , a monospaced face . |
| 23 | ‘ You look younger every time I see you . ’ |
| 24 | I read all the time , rapidly and voraciously . |
| 25 | Quoting Surridge 's formula — ‘ Attack all the time , whether batting , bowling or fielding |
| 26 | I think it stays open all the time now . |
| 27 | Leave one of the little windows open all the time . |
| 28 | If such firms are efficient then probably everyone knows who is doing well , through the informal appraisals that happen all the time . |
| 29 | ‘ These things happen all the time , ’ he said sceptically when Nikos came in to report them . |
| 30 | always say this because , you know , developments happen all the time , but as far as we know , genes are handed on as complete discrete enti entities , in units is what discovered . |