Example sentences of "all [adj] time [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 2 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 3 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 4 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
| 5 | All that time I kept thinking , do I love him ? |
| 6 | I looked after Papa all that time you went off with Arkwright , and I 've tried to look after your children for you now . |
| 7 | You work forty years of your life you 're made redundant all that time you paid insurance , tax and after twelve months they 've got the gall to take money you paid all your life off your unemployment and throw you on income . |
| 8 | It seemed an age before he returned , and all that time she had been painfully aware of the blaze in her inflamed hind-quarters . |
| 9 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 10 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |
| 11 | And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide . |
| 12 | All this time I said nothing to anyone of what I truly felt . |
| 13 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 14 | All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away . |
| 15 | Now , all this time I held my temper , even when he turned on the tears which he could do , playing skilfully on his little-boy manner which elicited great sympathy from the women . |
| 16 | You mean all this time you thought your mother no , I just do n't understand . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |
| 19 | Why now , when all this time he 'd stuck rigidly to her real , rather austere christian name , had he suddenly switched to the softer-sounding Rory ? |
| 20 | All this time she kept up her cryings and roarings , indeed , when she was ‘ barren of tears a day or half a day ’ , she was much depressed . |
| 21 | All this time she had scarcely noticed there were other people in the car with her . |
| 22 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 23 | All this time she had been imagining him pacing the terrace at Rocamar . |