Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] all [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Morden spent all the time talking to the groups and helping where needed . |
| 2 | Trumpets blew all the time , and drums were beating . |
| 3 | That was a phrase she and Benny used all the time . |
| 4 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 5 | Perhaps Eve knew all the time , maybe she had been in the shop when Mother was buying all this … all this horrible stuff . |
| 6 | At the present time jobs are not easy to come by , and if you 're on permanent , or rather short-term contracts renewed all the time this makes a difference to where you can get to compared with a man with the equivalent training . |
| 7 | His hands and body moved all the time . |
| 8 | When the bell sounded and the ghost figures pitched from the huts to form the lines at the Kitchen , he remained , his attention held all the time by the upper strands of wire and the topmost line of the wooden knee . |
| 9 | Cunningham was unusually quiet on the journey , but Van Cheele talked all the time , so he did not notice his friend 's silence . |
| 10 | The receipt of money and the audit of accounts were routine operations which the Exchequer conducted all the time without needing any instruction or authorization for doing so . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just possible , I suppose — if she keeps her head averted all the time — but I agree it 's unlikely . |
| 12 | And sometimes I felt he was different , and had changed , even though I knew people changed all the time and people our age changed faster than most . |
| 13 | A great many things that other people did all the time she had never done . |
| 14 | Death rates increased all the time , as hormonally charged adolescents flocked to give it heavy Brando on Honda C50s . |
| 15 | Certainly Mike had all the time in the world to launch a right hook , but Patsy also must have had all the time in the world to see it , for he simply swayed back on his heels and the punch missed by over a foot . |
| 16 | Filmer was still beside her : the passengers tended all the time to linger at the tables , talking , after the meals had been cleared , rather than return to the solitude of their bedrooms . |
| 17 | Because Uncle Mosse left his door unlocked all the time at the end and he did not mind who came in and out , as he said . |
| 18 | And she and Ryan screwed all the time and she did n't even love him . |
| 19 | My self-loathing deepened all the time . |
| 20 | One small colony remained all the time on their beach , an isolated solitary place of grey pebbles below greenish breakwaters ; high above them the blind-eyed office blocks glittered pink and yellow in the sun . |
| 21 | In Namibia in July last year Gus had all the time in the world to admire the African sunsets , and even the rosy dawns . |
| 22 | The Store nomes ate all the time . |
| 23 | They kept the doors locked all the time now , and on a bolt and chain , and Big Nan had sewn Velcro round all the edges of the curtains so they 'd stick together and no one be able to peer in . |
| 24 | Sabira wept all the time . |