Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [det] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transport , of course , is tending to increase all the time , but there could be , and almost certainly will be , a trend of smaller motor cars to make better use of fuel by having less consumption . |
| 2 | ‘ We tried to encourage the people to work with each other , and talk to politicians , because they argued a lot about what they were going to do all the time , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 4 | ( Plus I knew one of the kids was trying to escape all the time ) It ca n't be much fun being locked up there It really sounds like a POW story . |
| 5 | That 's the kind of thing we are trying to do all the time . ’ |
| 6 | The point I am trying to make all the time is that erosion and deposition have frequently in the past been very short-term phenomena . |
| 7 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |