Example sentences of "[adv] [det] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 That 's only half the time it took me last time .
2 So half the time I felt like killing him , and I got agoraphobia , because I was so depressed .
3 I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us .
4 So all the time you 're thinking that .
5 You know , so all the time you 're up here , like this , and then perhaps you stay to try and get some work finished before you go home , and as sure as fate , that 's the day when you promised to take somebody out , when you go home , and you 've forgotten about it .
6 So all the time you can see that water on it .
7 so all the time I 've got him
8 The Prime Minister was singing softly to himself when the Collector came in and continued to do so all the time he was there .
9 Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river .
10 Not all the time you ca n't can ya ?
11 Well I say if we can go in and out and not stick indoors all the time you know ?
12 It 's gon na be switched , it 's gon na be switched on all the time I 'm with you .
13 And nearly all the time you 'll get it right .
14 When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well .
15 It was raining intermittently all the time they were in the cemetery , the pines bowing and shivering in the wind .
16 The range is from 5.7 to 8.6 , so that for almost all the time it is easy to see with binoculars .
17 But ye were there all the time Ah was talkin , to Gómez .
18 Of course nobody no that 's not fair and then all the time he keeps coming back to this issue .
19 ‘ It 's been snowing heavily all the time we 've been in the hall .
20 Yet all the time we have to remember the inherent , native dynamism of Minoan culture ; all the way through there are changes , experiments , alternations between abstraction and naturalism ; all the way through , Minoan art is freely ranging , ever searching for new forms of expression .
21 Yet all the time it must have been different .
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