Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using this approach , it is possible to pick up incipient warning signs as the company starts to decline well in advance of it crossing the solvency threshold , allowing much more time for action to be taken . |
| 2 | Looking back , it should have sounded strange , after waiting all that time in the gynae clinic , and not even seeing a doctor . |
| 3 | And Derek was sat waiting all that time , but they must have panicked then so they erm we 'll have to wait and see . |
| 4 | You poor little dear — my heart goes out to you , waiting all this time . |
| 5 | I 've been waiting all this time for a baby , but I must admit the carrying of it is more tiring than I 'd expected . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 7 | ‘ I was hoping someone would come , but I ca n't blame them for not waiting all this time . |
| 8 | Lucille could not resist turning one more time . |
| 9 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 10 | What had her eyes been seeing all this time ? |
| 11 | Erm again mean time that the Americans er the Americans much more production , they 've been producing all this time anyway cos they 've got high productivity , need it for two hundred million people . |
| 12 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't worry , there 's no danger of me getting lost this time . |
| 14 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 15 | Tell you what , the only the thing hurts on me mate , I reckon I 'm I 'm doing this this time but but then it 's my shoulder . |
| 16 | ‘ There is a big focus on the environment and heritage just now and schools are spending much more time looking at their local area . |
| 17 | They 'd say ‘ But what were you doing all that time , Bina ? |
| 18 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 19 | ‘ What will little Johnny and little Cassie be doing all this time , while their parents are making love shamelessly ? ’ asked Cassie with interest . |
| 20 | What is he doing all this time , Ellen ? ’ |
| 21 | He said , What have you been doing all this time ? |
| 22 | What have they been doing all this time ? ’ |
| 23 | What have we been doing all this time ? |
| 24 | been recording all this time . |
| 25 | My body 's cramped from spending all that time in the back of the plane . |
| 26 | Keith takes this further : ‘ We were a little limited when we were recording the guitars , limited by the size of the room and the fact that some of the gear was n't working properly , so obstructive forces were at work and this is where compromise comes in ; you 're spending all this time when you know it could be a lot better . ’ |
| 27 | Is n't it good of them spending all this time to be sure I shall be quite safe here ? ’ |
| 28 | We can do a bit more taping thereon , I 'll be just interested to hear what you have been saying all this time , you know ! |
| 29 | You 're not having any more time off , I 've made my mind up ! |
| 30 | Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes . |