Example sentences of "[prep] all [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
2 | Oh , Silas — darling — after all this time it 's wonderful to see you again . |
3 | When I fink of all that time 'e jus ' sat at the front door wiv 'is 'ead in 'is 'ands , I shudder . |
4 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
5 | However , during all that time he records that he was seldom free from pain . |
6 | And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide . |
7 | During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape . |
8 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
9 | In all that time we have actually had two people say yes I would like to cancel , of all the policies that we 've actually issues . |
10 | In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash . |
11 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
12 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
13 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
14 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
15 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
16 | But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’ |
17 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
18 | I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever . |
19 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
20 | In all this time it has only ever had three owners . |
21 | In the image the tribe acts as a unit only when people need it , and at all other times it is only a possibility , a concept in their minds . |
22 | At all material times he and his family have been homeless within the meaning of section 58 of the Housing Act 1985 and have been living in temporary accommodation provided by the council , the local housing authority , under section 63 of the Act . |