Example sentences of "[subord] all [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I I said , he said ooh yes , the two girls come the alley on their own this is the their birthday cake ma , and I really jumped I said , cos we were right in the front , I thought what the hell 's he doing ! but what they were dressed in and she said , so I said , oh yeah well I did n't like it that I do n't know what 's wrong cos all the time they did . |
| 2 | Yeah , that was like me , I mean like I 'd , I was n't bad like , cos all the time I was just wearing like polo necks or like shirts with high collars and stuff cos it was n't actually on my neck it was just like on my , this one . |
| 3 | My selfconfidence had been eroded because all the time she told me that I was a failure . |
| 4 | ‘ Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to , while all the time we long to move the stars to pity . ’ |
| 5 | They want us to think they will advance through Charleroi , while all the time they will come towards us here ! |
| 6 | They stood among the hogsheads , their wide aprons marked by entrails , their blood-reddened hands dexterously wielding sharp little knives as they slit open the silver bellies and tossed aside the innards — while all the time they chattered endlessly , matching their skill in removing entrails with a similar expertise at gutting other people 's private lives . |
| 7 | She hated to think of his sister lying in hospital waiting for her husband to come to her while all the time he was with Dana . |
| 8 | I can hear Victor asking what I 'd do if I started losing the fight ; let them kick me about while all the time I could stop them ; let them find the gun ? |
| 9 | ‘ Was he taking it to the person it belongs to ? ’ he asked at last , and it was as though all the time he had been trying to frame the question in a special way . |
| 10 | How could she sit calmly and read a magazine , when all the time she knew that any moment there would be a knock on the door , and Luke would be standing there , waiting ? |
| 11 | He remembered his sporadic visits back to Taler 's Bump , the shy little girl who 'd been virtually a stranger to him , his awkward attempts at being a family man when all the time he 'd only been yearning to get back to work . |
| 12 | It would have meant nothing to that pervert to let her stay … he had wielded the knife , the cruel swine … telling her he regretted there was nothing for her when all the time he was still hiring people … examining her through that monocle as though he was God … |
| 13 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 14 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 15 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 16 | It 's a terrible appetite-killer , sitting opposite someone who picks and fiddles with their food , when all the time you 're desperate to tuck in like a pig . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Me struggling to prove a point when all the time you 've decided , made up your mind . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Why should I care what you feel when all the time you behave like a monster ? ’ she asked rhetorically . |
| 19 | ‘ There was I , feeling flattered at the attention you were paying me , when all the time you were just testing me out to see that I would n't dry up on the air ! |
| 20 | And we cling to history as a series of salon pictures , conversation pieces whose participants we can easily reimagine back into life , when all the time it 's more like a multi-media collage , with paint applied by decorator 's roller rather than camel-hair brush . |