Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Push push push all the time . |
| 2 | I like Canterbury , it 's very compact and there 's a Cathedral if you do n't want to shop all the time , there 's plenty of little places to eat . |
| 3 | TW wants to talk all the time , no matter what we want . ’ |
| 4 | He really did need clubbing all the time — over lining up his putts ; well , we came to an agreement there — only when he asked me . |
| 5 | She seemed distressed , ‘ I mean Balbinder , he used to just sit by the telly , even now he still … he wants toys … he does n't want to do the things , he wants to do all the time what he wants to do … ’ |
| 6 | She was also advised that she should continue to try to reduce weight and should not return to her work ( which involved standing all the time ) until she had been seen in the Outpatient Clinic in six weeks time . |
| 7 | Transport , of course , is tending to increase all the time , but there could be , and almost certainly will be , a trend of smaller motor cars to make better use of fuel by having less consumption . |
| 8 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 9 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 10 | According to Walken 's script , Elv is 57 years old , looks completely different , is a health nut who eats fish all the time , and is getting ready to come back . |
| 11 | They seemed to dance all the time with their own group of friends or relatives . |
| 12 | We just seemed to spend all the time we were n't at work doing up the house and arguing about how we wanted it . |
| 13 | I do n't want to be made to feel all the time . " |
| 14 | We had never been able to afford to go on holidays — Dad had had to work all the time — so school holidays had been spent at home . |
| 15 | The oak tree has got to grow all the time . |
| 16 | ‘ We tried to encourage the people to work with each other , and talk to politicians , because they argued a lot about what they were going to do all the time , ’ he said . |
| 17 | When I was young I co I do n't remember talking all the time about bloody health and what you should do and what you should n't do . |
| 18 | ‘ Is there any well known author you do n't know already with whom you 'd like to spend all the time I have to spend with him ? ’ asked Roger plaintively . |
| 19 | Well I mean if you er , if your chain was going too far astern you might pull the dredger astern too much so got ta keep your chain up the river , that 's what you go got to do all the time . |
| 20 | I thought the whole local area is something that is undergoing change all the time . |
| 21 | A doctor called in police after Heath phoned him and said : ‘ The old cow keeps nagging all the time . |
| 22 | ‘ Women are usually the weak ones who get rescued all the time . ’ |
| 23 | I think it stays open all the time now . |
| 24 | The hand keeps moving all the time , warding off rather than stopping . |
| 25 | You know , I mean we just got them cheap erm lampshades from now on er cos it 's not worth it cos th the expensive ones are just getting damaged all the time . |
| 26 | The name must have stuck in his mind because that 's what he keeps muttering all the time . ’ |
| 27 | It had n't been too bad , apart from people being cold and wet and getting eaten all the time . |
| 28 | fleeing er Claire because she keeps scratching all the time . |
| 29 | Cos er , you just get damage all the time in here . |
| 30 | Yeah I know we 'd still go up the Clickers sometimes but we do n't have to go all the time do we ? |