Example sentences of "[adj] that time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 2 | It 's funny how many stars seem to harbour similar buried desires perhaps it 's all that time they spend waiting on tables before they get their big break . |
| 3 | In all that time we have actually had two people say yes I would like to cancel , of all the policies that we 've actually issues . |
| 4 | However , during all that time he records that he was seldom free from pain . |
| 5 | All that time he has been kept going mainly by Russian hand-outs . |
| 6 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 7 | All that time I 've kept myself in trim . |
| 8 | But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’ |
| 9 | All that time I 've used heroin , dikes , Palfium , you name it . |
| 10 | I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever . |
| 11 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 12 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 13 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
| 14 | All that time I kept thinking , do I love him ? |
| 15 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 16 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 17 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 18 | I looked after Papa all that time you went off with Arkwright , and I 've tried to look after your children for you now . |
| 19 | You work forty years of your life you 're made redundant all that time you paid insurance , tax and after twelve months they 've got the gall to take money you paid all your life off your unemployment and throw you on income . |
| 20 | It seemed an age before he returned , and all that time she had been painfully aware of the blaze in her inflamed hind-quarters . |
| 21 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |