Example sentences of "[det] this time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 2 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |
| 3 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 4 | And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide . |
| 5 | ‘ All this time I know you and you never once suggest it . |
| 6 | But all this time , all this time I 've thought — she was just gone . ’ |
| 7 | All this time I said nothing to anyone of what I truly felt . |
| 8 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 9 | All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away . |
| 10 | Now , all this time I held my temper , even when he turned on the tears which he could do , playing skilfully on his little-boy manner which elicited great sympathy from the women . |
| 11 | ‘ All this time I have been riddled with guilt wondering if I would know his face . |
| 12 | You mean all this time you thought your mother no , I just do n't understand . |
| 13 | All this time you 've been living a dream , and now you 've seen that dream in the flesh you torment yourself even more . ’ |
| 14 | In all this time it has only ever had three owners . |
| 15 | All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed . |
| 16 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |
| 17 | Why now , when all this time he 'd stuck rigidly to her real , rather austere christian name , had he suddenly switched to the softer-sounding Rory ? |
| 18 | All this time she kept up her cryings and roarings , indeed , when she was ‘ barren of tears a day or half a day ’ , she was much depressed . |
| 19 | All this time she had scarcely noticed there were other people in the car with her . |
| 20 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 21 | All this time she had been imagining him pacing the terrace at Rocamar . |