Example sentences of "[adj] [art] time [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the lecturers keep saying in a lecture , ‘ this is somehow related to something else you 've done somewhere else ’ and I wish they 'd tell us how it 's related to something else because half the time we ca n't see that . |
| 2 | I mean er , I did n't like er that Friday night it were hor horrible shift , cos half the time you used to turn up , only half a team would turn up and you 'd be expected to do |
| 3 | Half the time I would say . |
| 4 | The particle being exchanged in a sense ‘ borrows its mass from the force field ; the heavier the mass , the shorter the time it can be borrowed , and , therefore , the shorter the range of the force . |
| 5 | They want us to think they will advance through Charleroi , while all the time they will come towards us here ! |
| 6 | Several times they fell painfully on jagged rocks , so that they learned to move exceedingly slowly , edging forward and feeling for a foothold , and all the time they could not know whether they were not wandering in aimless circles and approaching no nearer to the security of the forest . |
| 7 | All the time we would talk in English . |
| 8 | But we hoped all the time we would turn the corner . |
| 9 | On the other hand er , if we did what our friend from Cheltenham is doing we would have lo , we would be looking forward like that all the time we would have some idea . |
| 10 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 11 | All the time we must ask ourselves : " Is the Present a long enough key to penetrate the deep lock of the Past ? " |
| 12 | If she had n't kept busy all the time she would have thought too much about James , and about Maggie . |
| 13 | Its mother has given it all the time she can spare . |
| 14 | All the time I would like to be somewhere else , someone else . |
| 15 | to yourself I 'll do better next time and I 'll do better next time and it 's , it 's all the time I must try harder next time ! |
| 16 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 17 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 18 | And all the time I could read the writing upside-down on his desk : ‘ Reason for Referral : Bouts of uncontrollable aggression . ’ |
| 19 | I can hear Victor asking what I 'd do if I started losing the fight ; let them kick me about while all the time I could stop them ; let them find the gun ? |
| 20 | ‘ Now I spend all the time I can on the water — more room . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 've had all the time I can give , ’ he said tightly . |
| 22 | If I had flipping cameras round me all the time I 'd tell them where to go . |
| 23 | All the time you ought to be asking yourself : " why should anyone believe what I am writing ? " and " what have I noticed in the text or in background , contextual materials that makes me think this ? " |
| 24 | , late at night , , they 've got the boat , and the tape , they 're both out on tape and video , and basically you have to go back , as soon as the boat comes through docks the next person picks it up and goes , so you 've got very little time to pick up information , and all the time you ca n't go in , and the clock 's going , and the clock 's going and you switch , and they said it was , next to you , they said it such a |
| 25 | Not all the time you ca n't can ya ? |
| 26 | And nearly all the time you 'll get it right . |
| 27 | If , literally , all the time you can spare , is five minutes in the morning before you go to work , and a couple of hours in the evening when you come home , then you would probably be better off with a caged animal , such as a hamster or bird . |
| 28 | So all the time you can see that water on it . |
| 29 | Du n no , well you ca n't talk all the time you 'd have a sore throat would n't you ? |
| 30 | The old man had gone to stay with relatives for a few days , and Dorothy wondered if I would water her houseplants , because he ( Leo ) wanted to spend all the time he could with her at the hospital . |