Example sentences of "[adj] the time and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We definitely do n't want to go hungry and eat rabbit food all the time and we do n't want to mess about counting calories . |
| 2 | The electric bill used to be so high because we had the electric fire on all the time and we used to leave the oven on as well . |
| 3 | ‘ The training is getting better and better all the time and we can play an awful lot better . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ People like Mike Pickering and Jon Da Silva are up here DJing all the time and they 're telling people down there there 's a good scene going on here . ’ |
| 5 | When she chased him she laughed all the time and they would run around the garden before collapsing in a heap together on the grassy slopes beside the vegetable patch . |
| 6 | The attack showed that security force members were at risk all the time and they could now best be repaid by finding a political solution to the Ulster conflict . |
| 7 | Preston had more or less given up being a New Man since Carla — it was so difficult to get it right all the time and they kept moving the goalposts — but he still liked to make the right noises . |
| 8 | I am delighted to repeat that the number of women in the top grades of the civil service is improving all the time and they , of course , will be the permanent secretaries of the future . |
| 9 | so on a Sunday I used to say right I 'm not gon na take my tablets today because it 's a waste of a tablet if you 're gon na eat like that , and on a Sunday I used to be absolutely exhausted because you take them all the time and they keep you going and then when you stop taking them they 've just , you wind down |
| 10 | and there 's a big air base there , where the big spy , the A W A C spy planes come in and out all the time and they worked constantly and the were going in like and there was a lot of military aircraft to be |
| 11 | being busy she says you 're still being kept going all the time and they were streaming in you know . |
| 12 | got friends to go in messing about all the time and they 've , al everything that she had that were decent they 've ruined it all . |
| 13 | There are then the tinkers , who normally come from Ireland and who are engaged in business on a large scale , whether its tarmacking , or metal business , or dealing in furniture and antiques , and the third group who are the drop outs of society who have decided to move around all the time and they do n't care where they move from one place to another however much they inconvenience anybody else . |
| 14 | ‘ Ian Paisley does it all the time and it 's considered quite normal . ’ |
| 15 | Public interest in athletics was growing all the time and it was good to be coming through while that was happening . |
| 16 | More and more gliders were being produced all the time and it was quite impracticable to house them all in hangars , so they stood endlessly around the edges of airfields in the rain , waiting for an invasion which might come this year or might come next . |
| 17 | She looked aghast , tried to defend her view and then grew apologetic saying that newspaper offices were n't like others , the most extraordinary things turned up in the post all the time and it was reflex to laugh them off and throw them away . |
| 18 | George 's patience is probably what keeps Lennie from really getting himself into trouble , all the time and it is patience that has kept Lennie alive so long . |
| 19 | Get some movement out there we had a young , a young lady who er she name and she 's up front in the cabinet you know every opportunity she had she was looking for round the room , but not sort of in the round the outside all the time and it 's just that she wanted to be with a group of people all the time . |
| 20 | Well it 's just it 's not the the grease the make up or the cream it 's the fact that you 're you 're putting so much muck on your skin all the time and it clogs up pores and causes spots . |
| 21 | John 's serious , you ca n't he is dead serious all the time and it is a |
| 22 | Yeah cos there 's , on your own all the time and you feel you 've got no time for yourself and that can be fairly bad at times . |
| 23 | They 're going to keep being first all the time and you 'll be thinking , Hang on hang on I have n't worked that out . |
| 24 | And you go out and do the same thing again and you 're getting le let off for the same thing all the time and you think you 're going to get away with it all the time . |
| 25 | They 're going to be confused yes , very confused , I mean on the football pitch you usually get the trainer run man and they 're talking to the footballer and it 's looking at them all the time and he will ask questions , erm what 's your name ? |
| 26 | He ca n't help it , he makes things up all the time and he forgets what 's true and what is n't … ’ |
| 27 | beard and that all the time and he shaved that off , oh |
| 28 | And she and Ryan screwed all the time and she did n't even love him . |
| 29 | One of them goes abroad all the time and she comes back with some great stories ! |
| 30 | Her guard was up all the time and she lacked a sense of humour . |