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 . |