Example sentences of "that [det] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Blake case is still extremely sensitive because Blake was authorised to do some very terrible things in the East-West espionage war without MI6 being aware that all the time he was one of Russia 's most important agents . |
| 2 | The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly . |
| 3 | Or maybe blue … they say it may clear up later , but people say that all the time in Scotland . |
| 4 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 5 | I was driving along t you know t telling David that all the time that that people are on the roads practising how to drive and becoming better drivers there are people like that wally there crossing the roa Oh , it 's Simon . |
| 6 | Expelled by a cunning King , they flew again towards the west on the next leg of their ride through a world that all the time was changing and shifting against them . |
| 7 | Notice , however , that all the time this expansion is taking place , the composition of the aggregate balance sheet must be changing . |
| 8 | It was delicious to be close to Alain , to belong to him , to know that all the time she had been alone he had been thinking about her . |
| 9 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |