Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was why India-May could handle being ripped off all the time . |
| 2 | My idea of prison was that it was somewhere where you were locked up and picked on all the time — that was my impression . |
| 3 | The British Journal of Educational Psychology published an article on the negative correlation between fertility and intelligence by Gerald O'Hanlon in 1940 and an attack by Charlotte Fleming on the assumption that socio-economic level and intelligence were highly related in 1943 The Times Educational Supplement reviewed Maguiness 's book Environment and Heredity without querying the causal assumption that intelligence was mainly inherited . |
| 4 | Armed with the Steamatic , there 's no need to get your hands dirty and the job is done in half the time . |
| 5 | If you want it done in half the time , you 've got to have twice as many people . |
| 6 | On reflection , this exception is probably justified on the grounds that to provide otherwise might inhibit innovation in this very fast-moving field where the existing technology is being built upon all the time whilst property rights still subsist in that existing technology . |
| 7 | Our descent was made in one-fifth the time it had taken us to climb to our record-breaking altitude . |
| 8 | Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him . |
| 9 | Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it . |
| 10 | The consequence of this ‘ friendly and useful ’ advice was that the parts healed in half the time after the second operation as they did after the first . |
| 11 | A year to make some money in could be spared from all the time in the world . |
| 12 | I suppose they get fed up stuck in all the time , do n't they ? |
| 13 | Michael was also fastened on all the time . ’ |
| 14 | Lennie 's ultimate paradise in this dream is to get to tend rabbits , and this is referred to all the time throughout the book , adding to the sense of impending tragedy which exists all the way through the book , until the tragedy actually occurs . |
| 15 | In early 1988 , DPR were prone to particularly vigorous sales campaigns ahead of trade figures , or on significant movement of interest rates , as opposed to all the time . |
| 16 | Generators powered by a free energy source can be left on all the time , perpetually recharging the batteries and , provided they are of an adequate size , can handle the charging demand of all but the largest yachts for most of the time . |
| 17 | Agriculture was beginning to change dramatically as well and after two hurricanes which almost wiped out the flourishing egg industry many farms built more substantial hen houses out of concrete blocks and the poultry were kept inside all the time in what was known as deep litter houses . |