Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [det] the time " in BNC.
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1 | If you are encouraging them all the time to consider propositions or arguments and then what evidence has been marshalled in support and the like , then you want them to come out like that … . |
2 | You need three paint brushes ( you should already have these and be using them all the time ) : a ) Clean brush for cleaning the fluff from the actual machine — around the needles and so on . |
3 | ‘ You ca n't keep challenging it all the time because otherwise they just stop listening to you . |
4 | So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed . |
5 | I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week . |
6 | ‘ We can have the Jheri-Curls chasin' us all the time tryin' to cut our hair and throw chemicals in it ! ’ |
7 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |
8 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time , only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied , or at the door of a friend of my mother 's with a boy she fancied for me inside . |
9 | I go back to thinking that the best way of changing the environment of the colleges would be to try and erm I mean talking again as if it 's boys perpetrating it all the time erm boys will stop doing it if women respond differently . |
10 | I 'm not , I 'm not just blaming them all the time , I mean , the situation is , when they go out on the field , they are their own men , I ca n't do anything about there , I ca n't talk for them out there ; I can only put it on in training , and when they get out there , they 've got to do it theirselves . |
11 | The round mahogany table , friend of my childhood , under whose shelter I had lain and read ; whose clawed brass feet I had cleaned every Saturday morning when young , and then later , admiring them all the time — never having seen any other claws as fine or as lifelike as these . |
12 | One is , after all , having it all the time … now … and now … and now … |
13 | I seem saying it all the time . |
14 | Actually I 've got it on here but I just do n't like saying it all the time . |
15 | He 's recording it all the time . |
16 | If you want to know the correct way to squat , then just watch a child of two or three because they are doing it all the time . |
17 | Why , why is everyone rushing off doing it all the time ? |
18 | But erm I , I think a midwife , a good midwife , is every bit as good as a doctor because she 's doing it all the time . |
19 | I mean , other thing we really need to all , er you see , when I was working at it , and when we were doing it all the time |
20 | and you sort of say , do you think it would be useful if we talked about reception because that 's something y you 're not doing quite as frequently but it 's obviously , it must be difficult for you to fit in to that because you 're not doing it all the time . |
21 | People are joining us all the time , so I 'm very briefly er just in a word or two , going to go over the subjects , and then if you want to give me a ring , please do so . |
22 | Impatience even — which is a blight threatening us all the time . ’ |
23 | Helping him all the time . |
24 | Counting them all the time like that . |
25 | I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it . |
26 | I 've been taking them all the time . |
27 | We both like driving it so much that we end up using it all the time , ’ says the Stirlingshire chiropodist . |
28 | I 've been using it all the time . |
29 | yes it was a movie picture , yes been showing here , because when she said she was blind , I thought well what 's the good , but she said oh well , he , when he runs it through he sort of explains to , but he was using it all the time was n't he ? |
30 | I 'm using it all the time . |