Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [det] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Lorelei Lee said immemorably in Diamonds Are a Girl 's Best Friend , a girl ca n't go on laughing all the time . |
| 2 | He was on it , all these people that go in to work all the time like every day were on the telly ! |
| 3 | You only spend half the time , you have twice as many men . |
| 4 | He just laughs all the time . |
| 5 | she never slows down , she looks busy and everything but she 's not really , she just goes all the time and that 's |
| 6 | When treating illness in children there are two very good signs that you have hit on the correct remedy : firstly , if the child vomits shortly after having the remedy , assuming he was not already vomiting all the time ! |
| 7 | You 're pretending that you 're speaking to somebody and just speak all the time . |
| 8 | One of the pleasures of Saturday working was that the phone did not ring all the time . |
| 9 | But I wa but I was there for a fortnight and when I came back I , you know it 's preparing for Synod just takes all the time we have somehow and I |
| 10 | Sometimes they seem like they 're just coming all the time do n't they ? |
| 11 | ‘ This river just changes all the time . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes — now that I 'm not studying all the time . ’ |
| 13 | I just resent all the time I 'm not spending with you , ca n't you see that ? |
| 14 | But that sort of thing went on in those days , money was physically handled all the time . |
| 15 | My ankles and knees and spine and neck no longer hurt all the time — or not all at once , anyway . |
| 16 | She noted everyone in the choir , indeed , as part of a determined effort not to gaze all the time at Giles Carnaby , who was in the back row , in the middle of the tenors , straight ahead of her , where she could consider him in detail — silvery hair , grey herring-bone tweed jacket , greenish shirt , paisley patterned silk tie ( so much for not gazing … ) |
| 17 | So I tried the bottle and he was still vomiting all the time . |
| 18 | Yes , more coming all the time . |
| 19 | ‘ The ones who came later and are still arriving all the time . |
| 20 | There were thirty or forty people with more arriving all the time . |
| 21 | IT 'S the sort of thing you 're called on to do all the time . |
| 22 | In a sentence such as ( 1b ) not only does did situate its lexical supplement ( eat ) in time like any other auxiliary , but it also evokes all the time necessary to actualize the infinitive 's lexeme and so produces a representation of an event seen from beginning to end as something that really takes its place in time . |
| 23 | The quality of housing is also improving all the time . |
| 24 | as if you had n't both got all the time in the world ! |
| 25 | I think that would do the trick but preparing handou I mean I was doing those till two , this lot for you this mor I 'm absolutely y'know it 's quite hard work when you 're concurrently teaching all the time . |
| 26 | In opera we are also learning all the time . |
| 27 | Honestly do all the time . |
| 28 | Watching the spectacle , one has the weird sensation that the actors really knew all the time that their professions were illusory , and that there was a kind of gigantic tacit conspiracy to pretend . |
| 29 | I went to a sensitivity-training center and I learned body language , but it did n't help my marriage , because I was a tool of male imperialism and that was what I was really resenting all the time . |
| 30 | Ought to be out playing all the time . |