Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 When I fink of all that time 'e jus ' sat at the front door wiv 'is 'ead in 'is 'ands , I shudder .
3 After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla .
4 However , during all that time he records that he was seldom free from pain .
5 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 .
6 In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash .
7 And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents .
8 They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’
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 I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever .
15 ‘ 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 .
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