Example sentences of "all [adj] time [pers pn] have " 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 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 .
3 All that time he has been kept going mainly by Russian hand-outs .
4 All that time I 've kept myself in trim .
5 But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’
6 All that time I 've used heroin , dikes , Palfium , you name it .
7 I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened .
10 Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 It seemed an age before he returned , and all that time she had been painfully aware of the blaze in her inflamed hind-quarters .
15 And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents .
16 All this time they had been standing by the front door .
17 But all this time , all this time I 've thought — she was just gone . ’
18 All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped .
19 All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away .
20 All this time I have been riddled with guilt wondering if I would know his face .
21 All this time you 've been living a dream , and now you 've seen that dream in the flesh you torment yourself even more . ’
22 In all this time it has only ever had three owners .
23 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 .
24 All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library .
25 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 ?
26 All this time she had scarcely noticed there were other people in the car with her .
27 She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought .
28 All this time she had been imagining him pacing the terrace at Rocamar .
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