Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [det] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be either a chronic pattern ( like a record that plays all the time ) or a ‘ triggered ’ pattern . |
| 2 | I thought I thought you were going to get one on your desk , one like Jed 's that hums all the time . |
| 3 | I think he should get a hearing aid — it 's easier than shouting all the time . |
| 4 | If such firms are efficient then probably everyone knows who is doing well , through the informal appraisals that happen all the time . |
| 5 | Craig 's mother Sue Harris said : ‘ Children use that bridge all the time to get to and from school . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't be be'ind that counter all the time . |
| 7 | And they 've got this doberman or something that barks all the time like , and it 's allowed i in the garden and it sits in the garden all the time and all the rest of it ! |
| 8 | While Man has stopped developing , animals seem to learn , adapt and change all the time . |
| 9 | They switch and change all the time , phu ! like this . |
| 10 | Now , suddenly , he was going around being angry and upset all the time , and smiting people . |
| 11 | Scientists can not be observing and experimenting all the time , and when a scientist is thinking about communication he is no less subject to the superficial attractions of the ‘ transporting ideas ’ model than the rest of us . |
| 12 | Distantly she remembered that she had never understood the art of it , had to work on it , conscious and struggling all the time . |
| 13 | It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life |
| 14 | ‘ It 's true everyone expects me to go out and win all the time , ’ says Gunnell , who has managed to remain as unspoilt as she was before her Barcelona triumph . |
| 15 | They laughed and joked all the time , and deliberately exhausted their guards by making them walk too fast . |
| 16 | This is unavoidable , and occurs all the time as you speak or write . |
| 17 | In getting to know a person for example , to insist on doubting everything he or she does and says all the time will soon put an end to any effective relationship — doubt is simply not appropriate . |
| 18 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 19 | There is no fun at all in repeatedly looking into bright sunlight , straining your eyes and wondering all the time what 's happening — because it is almost certain that you will be unable to see as well as you really need to . |
| 20 | Everyone wants us to work and work all the time and not stop . |
| 21 | in a place like that Paul people are coming and going all the time . |
| 22 | Upwind sailing is a part of the sport that many people ignore , concentrating instead on reaching and gybing all the time . |
| 23 | And they look and look all the time . |
| 24 | But he 's puffing and panting all the time . |
| 25 | Her methods of child-rearing stand out as being more ‘ working-class ’ than ‘ middle-class ’ ; for example she smacked a lot and expected the three year old to be clean and tidy all the time : both these are areas in which the Newsons found social class differences in their study . |
| 26 | just natter and natter all the time |
| 27 | She worries and frets all the time . |
| 28 | She said there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called … bromeliads , I think , and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and once you know the world is full of things like that your life is never the same . ’ |
| 29 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 30 | This is very difficult to do when you do n't have a network up and running all the time . |