Example sentences of "[prep] all [adj] time i " 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 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 .
3 And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide .
4 During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape .
5 They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’
10 Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me .
11 I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever .
12 ‘ 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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