Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [det] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 She was also advised that she should continue to try to reduce weight and should not return to her work ( which involved standing all the time ) until she had been seen in the Outpatient Clinic in six weeks time .
2 Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right .
3 I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship .
4 They seemed to dance all the time with their own group of friends or relatives .
5 We just seemed to spend all the time we were n't at work doing up the house and arguing about how we wanted it .
6 Well I mean if you er , if your chain was going too far astern you might pull the dredger astern too much so got ta keep your chain up the river , that 's what you go got to do all the time .
7 ‘ They kept praying all the time ! ’
8 He kept moving all the time , on his toes with his weight perfectly balanced , just as he 'd been taught , down at the gymnasium , every Saturday and every Wednesday for the past five years , times when everyone thought he was busy doing something else .
9 He had to find all the time he could to write the play , even if it meant neglecting other matters , not least because it would be his first composition since the award of the Nobel Prize .
10 Bourke had to do this every time he spoke with Blake up to the time of the escape in October .
11 She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained .
12 Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room .
13 ‘ I felt ill and had to rest all the time , ’ says Odette .
14 They had quarrelled all the time and his mum had slammed out and left all the washing-up in the sink which he and Gary had to do when they ran out of plates .
15 The old man had gone to stay with relatives for a few days , and Dorothy wondered if I would water her houseplants , because he ( Leo ) wanted to spend all the time he could with her at the hospital .
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