Example sentences of "he [vb past] all the time " in BNC.
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1 | He had absorbed enough knowledge of lighting in his career to know who was being given the best spots , and he fought all the time to get Therese pushed out when he was on stage . |
2 | He grumbled all the time , but was really quite happy because he did not allow himself to worry . |
3 | We did a great deal of work with music and in listening to sounds and in rhythms , and then a lot of work in which I actually read to him and he followed all the time what I was reading , so that he would try to link the sounds and the words together . |
4 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
5 | Well , I remember my father saying of the old Baron that in his last illness he talked all the time of there being a grandson . |
6 | When Therese was on stage without him , he talked all the time . |
7 | I hated Gionesca because he complained all the time , and I knew that I could get away with hating him because I was stronger and fitter than him . |
8 | But then , a few days later , Mervyn Stockwood revealed that he had all the time in fact been helping dissident priests in a variety of clandestine ways , still too secret to be fully detailed : not so much a Red Bishop as a clerical Scarlet Pimpernel . |
9 | He 'd been in the house for nearly six weeks now and although he had not yet been called upon to take part in a Vibrancy performance , he had all the time in the world to practise . |
10 | He gave one to Corbett before sitting down opposite , sipping from his own cup as if he had all the time in the world . |
11 | He kissed her lingeringly as if he had all the time in the world and she felt a shudder run through her at the response he was forcing from her with so little effort . |
12 | Now he had all the time in the world to read and discuss the serious question : what can Third World countries do to alleviate their debt crisis ? |
13 | He smoked all the time and at the end asked me to walk with him in the Park . |