Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [det] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 2 | She spent nearly all the time at a long meeting . |
| 3 | Karen spent nearly all the time at a long meeting . |
| 4 | It was already lost — part of the jetsam of discarded immemorabilia which disappeared astern all the time . |
| 5 | Cos it fell off all the time . |
| 6 | Cleaned up all the time . |
| 7 | The Persian listened carefully all the time for strange noises . |
| 8 | Pursuing the notion of building sex education into the curriculum , I asked whether they would not be embarrassed to talk about sex with a teacher they saw around all the time . |
| 9 | Madame was there every night , she was The Bar and she was also the reason why so many of us went there all the time . |
| 10 | But they — the Colonel and Mrs Hamilton — they had no family , only a brother who lived abroad all the time , and , well , they treated me like a son , or grandson , rather . |
| 11 | My mother cooked and cleaned and knitted almost all the time . |
| 12 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 13 | So it did n't necessarily mean that you get a squad of riveters that would stayed together all the time , erm for various reasons , as I say they may have been , unfortunately some of them might even die and therefore you had to make up the squad again |
| 14 | the Cov defenders backed off all the time . |
| 15 | Now if I stood here all the time for two days and presented to you just standing here do your eyes move have to move if you 're watching me all the time your eyes are fixed are n't they in one position ? |
| 16 | Some households take them in when not in use , I know that , but we never did , ours stayed there all the time like a yellow and blue tree . |