Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was why India-May could handle being ripped off all the time . |
| 2 | She actually moved about all the time which was quite frustrating . |
| 3 | You 're sorta runnin' about all the time , so you do n't get time for anythin' else really . |
| 4 | My idea of prison was that it was somewhere where you were locked up and picked on all the time — that was my impression . |
| 5 | Armed with the Steamatic , there 's no need to get your hands dirty and the job is done in half the time . |
| 6 | If you want it done in half the time , you 've got to have twice as many people . |
| 7 | Reading about revolutionary feminism really grabbed me , reading about an analysis that saw male violence as crucial , and as one of the main issues for women and something that women die from all the time , many , many women . |
| 8 | On reflection , this exception is probably justified on the grounds that to provide otherwise might inhibit innovation in this very fast-moving field where the existing technology is being built upon all the time whilst property rights still subsist in that existing technology . |
| 9 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 10 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 11 | And they would keep for all the time . |
| 12 | When you 've got an engine , erm , you Let's say we 've got an engine with a fixed amount of petrol going in all the time . |
| 13 | Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him . |
| 14 | The discussion may be restricted to impeccably intellectual topics , but the play of market forces is going on all the time just below the surface . |
| 15 | This is a process which is going on all the time in the world of bacteria , and drug firms are managing to keep ahead , just , by producing newer ( and inevitably , more expensive ) antibiotics that will still be effective . |
| 16 | Although Fred pretended to be surprised at my earnings I felt sure he knew what was going on all the time . |
| 17 | He just asked for more erm , one thing that is disturbing , what he does very causally mention is what is going on all the time |
| 18 | Assessing his impact on the reading public , Graham Greene wrote that he had ‘ some of the qualities of Dr Johnson — a plainness , an honesty , a sense of ordinary life going on all the time ’ . |
| 19 | Caution is necessary , however , because not all of these activities were certainly going on all the time . |
| 20 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 21 | These things are going on all the time . |
| 22 | ‘ There are double and triple checks going on all the time . ’ |
| 23 | I says God flipping hell what 's going up here , then , something going on all the time int there ? |
| 24 | Because he likes to see what 's going on all the time . |
| 25 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 26 | This is what the manufacturers of hi-fi equipment are striving towards all the time , and the DNA-replication process , as we have seen , is spectactularly good at reducing errors . |
| 27 | Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it . |
| 28 | Just because you 're looking for win win relationships all the time that does n't mean that you 're gon na get walked over all the time because by being assertive and by this is this is really what I want , what is it that you want and looking , listening to the other person 's point of view as well as making sure your point of view goes across as well somewhere , somewhere in all of that through all this down here , there 's a way of finding something for both people . |
| 29 | He keeps on all the time . |
| 30 | The consequence of this ‘ friendly and useful ’ advice was that the parts healed in half the time after the second operation as they did after the first . |