Example sentences of "[prep] all the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I think of all the time they 've wasted , trying to prove me guilty while the real killer goes free … ’ |
| 2 | Throughout all the time I knew him , he had no other interest in life that even vaguely approached the study of taxation . ’ |
| 3 | During all the time I had played golf I had not gone into any competitions and I had not got my handicap . |
| 4 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll talk to you for all the time we 're on this train . |
| 6 | On the prospect of facing Ballesteros , Faldo , who did not get a degree in journalism , remarked : ‘ With all the time he 's had off this afternoon I hope Carmen will have worn him out . |
| 7 | Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it . |
| 8 | Because they have seen the future they can not or will not speak of what they know so the Phoenix Guard are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in all the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 9 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 10 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 11 | Why , in all the time she 'd known him he had never said the words . |
| 12 | In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before . |
| 13 | Bill Service , Personnel Manager states ‘ In all the time she has been in the Mill , she was never late of absent until February 1987 when she unfortunately slipped while coming to work and sustained a dislocated elbow . ’ |
| 14 | In all the time you 've been in the flats ? |
| 15 | In all the time you 've played with us , we 've never played a Mystery with Christ in it . ’ |
| 16 | In all the time I have been writing the bass analysis column , I can not remember receiving any requests for the very influential playing of John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and now I get two in the same month . |
| 17 | I only done about eight or nine in all the time I was there . |
| 18 | Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him . |
| 19 | I do n't think that in all the time I 'd known Jessica , I 'd ever seen her cry . |
| 20 | But I think I may have to extend it — just like the politicians — because I have n't achieved anything in all the time I have been in my new home . |
| 21 | You know , in all the time I 've worked here there has never been one single incidence of staff theft . |
| 22 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 23 | She did n't look at him , not once , not in all the time it took to complete her task . |
| 24 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 25 | In all the time he had know Joe , he had never seen anyone else in his room ; indeed he had never seen him in company , except at the meetings of the IRB . |
| 26 | In fact , the girls suffered permanently from colds and flu from all the time they were forced to spend in the freezing playground . |
| 27 | I once knitted almost half of the front of a sweater in tuck stitch , continually dropping stitches and muttering at all the time I was spending picking them up . |