Example sentences of "[det] [adj] time [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I know what you should do with all that free time you have : acting . |
| 2 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 3 | The basis of the Good Friday belief appears to have been that on that day the soil is redeemed from the power of Satan — the old chthonic god of the pre-Christian religion — and for this brief time he has no influence on it at all . |
| 4 | If , for example , she sometimes finds the superfluities of Godmersham amusing — ‘ At this present time I have five Tables , Eight & twenty Chairs & two fires all to myself ’ she none the less savours the ‘ luxurious sensation ’ of sitting ‘ in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned room ’ . |
| 5 | But just at this particular time we 've got a lot of residents with Zimmer frames and they really just are n't steady enough without one of the care staff going across with them , which does happen . |
| 6 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 7 | Girl , he called her , but this last time he 'd called her Vi and written that he loved her , and he 'd never done that before . |
| 8 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 9 | In all that time we have actually had two people say yes I would like to cancel , of all the policies that we 've actually issues . |
| 10 | All that time he has been kept going mainly by Russian hand-outs . |
| 11 | All that time I 've kept myself in trim . |
| 12 | But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’ |
| 13 | All that time I 've used heroin , dikes , Palfium , you name it . |
| 14 | I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever . |
| 15 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 16 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 17 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
| 18 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 19 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 20 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 21 | It seemed an age before he returned , and all that time she had been painfully aware of the blaze in her inflamed hind-quarters . |
| 22 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 23 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |
| 24 | But all this time , all this time I 've thought — she was just gone . ’ |
| 25 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 26 | All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away . |
| 27 | ‘ All this time I have been riddled with guilt wondering if I would know his face . |
| 28 | All this time you 've been living a dream , and now you 've seen that dream in the flesh you torment yourself even more . ’ |
| 29 | In all this time it has only ever had three owners . |
| 30 | All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed . |