Example sentences of "[adj] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was this the time you had your black edged writing paper and black edged envelopes and |
| 2 | She and Donald had started to take risks — they wanted each other so much that the reality of other people had dimmed for them , half the time they felt cloaked in invisibility . |
| 3 | Half the time they 're just crazy instruments that do n't have a name . |
| 4 | Until a few years ago , married women had to have paid full NI contributions for half the time they were married and working to get anything at all in their own right . |
| 5 | Half the time they did n't understand what you was trying to tell them , and you could feel yourself working up , through frustration . |
| 6 | They use the handouts you give them — but half the time they put some snide twist on the story . |
| 7 | More than just that shop where you go in you can go all round and wander round and you do n't see anybody only filling the shelves up and half the time they do n't even , ca n't even advise you where to go can they you know . |
| 8 | ‘ Half the time they do n't turn up , ’ Babur says . |
| 9 | I 'd better have about three cos half the time they have n't bloody got them up there |
| 10 | Half the time we carry on as if we did n't have a body : and we only think about our bodies if they trouble us — if we 're hungry or in pain . |
| 11 | We got our heads right round it , whereas before , like , half the time we was n't even bothered what was recorded or how it was done , it was always bang , get a groove , put it down and see what we can do with it later . ’ |
| 12 | Some of the lecturers keep saying in a lecture , ‘ this is somehow related to something else you 've done somewhere else ’ and I wish they 'd tell us how it 's related to something else because half the time we ca n't see that . |
| 13 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 14 | You can no longer say , ‘ OK , but there will be a smart worker who will learn how to do that in half the time it takes now ’ . |
| 15 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 16 | That 's only half the time it took me last time . |
| 17 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 18 | Half the time it was n't Clemence she was getting at — it was me . |
| 19 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 20 | And also , but half the time it 's the problem arises because it 's , the machines gone to personnel without something , and then we 've got to spend time either chasing it up or getting another bit or going round in circles . |
| 21 | Half the time you 're just a ear to listen to them . |
| 22 | It ought to make you feel ashamed , Sebastian , to think half the time you do n't bother to make use of all the facilities that are offered to you — you just take it all for granted . |
| 23 | Not only ca n't you always get what you want , half the time you get what you do n't need either . |
| 24 | ‘ Half the time you have this little-girl-lost look — like when we walked into this bar tonight — and then suddenly you look all determined and hard . ’ |
| 25 | The problem is , the problem is though , half the time you put into a situation , where , I , I , I was due er , a week 's holiday , and two weeks previous to that , I was actually changed contract so I was there on this new contract , and in a fortnight I was going to take a holiday , and sort of , well I ca n't stop you from taking your holiday , but you know , it 's , that sort of problem is n't it . |
| 26 | I mean er , I did n't like er that Friday night it were hor horrible shift , cos half the time you used to turn up , only half a team would turn up and you 'd be expected to do |
| 27 | Cos every time I turn around yeah cos you two always sort of w looking at me and whispering and , you know , m half the time you have been talking about me cos I 've heard you mention my name and it 's not very nice . |
| 28 | Half the time I do n't even understand what they are fighting about . ’ |
| 29 | So half the time I felt like killing him , and I got agoraphobia , because I was so depressed . |
| 30 | We should not just go through the Lobbies — half the time I do so without knowing for what I am voting . |