Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand an and appreciate wh what you 're saying and most grateful to you for that , I think wha what you 're , Neil is saying is is that with we must make sure the time , that this main strategic planning he has to look at , this very important issue , allows sufficient time for mature consideration |
| 2 | It must happen all the time . ’ |
| 3 | He should have all the time in the world . |
| 4 | that 's that , I mean that 's fine , that 'll work all the time , this way , if you practice it , you 'll find it much quicker , and it 's easier |
| 5 | ‘ Once he is back with Berenice , and this latest ‘ Mrs Smith ’ has gone back to whichever hole she crawled out of , we 'll have all the time in the world for our own affairs . ’ |
| 6 | I nearly joined you , but when we do make love we 'll have all the time in the world , not just a few snatched minutes . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you 'll have all the time you need to be beautiful this summer — and that 's what summer is about , for crying out loud . |
| 8 | Alice was thinking : Jim 's so big and strong , Philip is n't ; together they 'd need half the time . |
| 9 | I mean , I 've needed four years to get to this point so she could have all the time in the world as far as I was concerned . |
| 10 | You may have all the time in the world , but the rest of us have to earn a living . |
| 11 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 12 | Then I have my Flying V which I used to play all the time . |
| 13 | But it was mainly on the beach we used to play all the time . |
| 14 | We decided that as we were n't going to get our retirement together , we would spend all the time together we could . |
| 15 | Both halves have their merits , but together their appeal will be limited to those teachers of computer science , who if lecturing on the impact of motor traffic on society , would spend half the time on the way sparking plugs work . |
| 16 | And the messengers would come all the time . |
| 17 | Once you 've built your computer system it will run all the time certainly all the time . |
| 18 | While it is acknowledged by pluralists that groups and associations will not all be equal in the political weight they can bring to bear on governments , no group will dominate all the time , and most groups will be able to have their way some of the time . |
| 19 | And as packing can take half the time of the total removal and even more in certain circumstances , most people opt for that . |
| 20 | You can have all the time in the world , Virginia … ’ |
| 21 | Mark Kozelek thinks about finding someone else to sing his songs , so he can hide all the time . |