Example sentences of "be [v-ing] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more people there are helping the less time it takes . |
| 2 | Do you know you 're doing the three times table ? |
| 3 | 3 If you are coming back from injury or lay-off , go slowly — train progressively and do not expect to be doing the same times as you were before . |
| 4 | They were saying the last time I heard them saying anything he was sort of going |
| 5 | Oh , but that but he is acting the whole time , that 's not him being him . |
| 6 | I really do n't I think he 's acting the whole time , I do n't think he knows he 's doing it . |
| 7 | No he 's , he 's , he 's just out to impress people , I mean he looks around to see if you 're watching him and he 'll erm no , yeah he 's acting the whole time , I do n't really , I do n't know if he knows who he is you know ? |
| 8 | Well I think so , I think erm as long as they can go and work with children and then they 've got the time when they can leave off and come , but it 's having the whole time , well then they 've children all their life have n't they ? |
| 9 | Unless a company is progressing the whole time , it is , in fact , moving backwards . |
| 10 | I I found it when I was driving the last time . |
| 11 | She knew he was remembering the last time they had drunk Martinis together and what she had said to him then . |
| 12 | ‘ I was acting the other times , yes . ’ |
| 13 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |
| 14 | While I was getting the Irish Times yesterday I happen to see the back page of the Sun ; - ) where Fergies autobiog is being serialised . |
| 15 | He was learning the whole time , today one thing , tomorrow another , this year well , next year better . " |
| 16 | Nottingham Forest v Norwich Norwich 's manager Dave Stringer was playing the last time his team won at Forest — in 1974 . |
| 17 | ‘ But I was thinking the best time to escape is when all the teachers are n't around to stop you . ’ |