Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ But Seal Haven is a mass of rocks , with fierce currents boiling round them most of the time . |
| 32 | In fact , only one serious relationship lay behind her , with a Wellington actor who read news bulletins in order to eat , and it had died owing to lack of feeling , disappointing them both at the time , but Maria had philosophically absorbed the lesson at the heart of the sad experience . |
| 33 | After the trials of Halton , Cranwell was a haven , With my pay now being nearly 30 a week , I invested in a motorcycle — a square tank Rudge of questionable vintage — for £4 ( at a pound a week ) , but soon cured myself of the motorcycle bug that seemed to affect us all at the time . |
| 34 | Charged particles from outer space ( cosmic rays ) are bombarding us all of the time and occasionally cause the electronics in the sophisticated detector circuits to misfire . |
| 35 | What Holmes and Rahe failed to recognise is that major life events are not what stress most of us most of the time . |