Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean half the time I think I do n't remember anything because er er , people are so busy blooming playing around and |
| 2 | Well the first crane I drove was a was only at that so I was stuck on one of them and I had to sling me grab all the time and this , this bridge come round and miss the bridge and go over it and rush it down to the hold . |
| 3 | ‘ I cry all the time , when I 'm happy , when I 'm sad , when I 'm making love . |
| 4 | It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life |
| 5 | The microcomputer should have a form of security e.g. by bolting it to a desk if it is to remain in one place all the time , perhaps next to the library catalogue . |
| 6 | ‘ I want all the time . ’ |
| 7 | Children younger than you die all the time . |
| 8 | I count all the time it 's happening . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I was influenced by AM radio all the time I was growing up , which was all the great '50s rock'n'roll , and I suppose I would have to include The Beatles in that . |
| 10 | I worry all the time in case they tell Mum . |
| 11 | It 's not that I 'm particularly unhappy with the shape of my body or with my image , it 's just that I worry all the time about what people think about me , what impression they are getting . |
| 12 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 13 | I think , I think that , I do n't think they smoke all the time upstairs , but like , in the summer , er , basically this place just had its windows and doors open all day long , every day . |
| 14 | He wrote that he was lying on a concrete floor ; he mentioned acute rheumatism , chronic bronchitis ; ‘ My ribs are tight , I have a lot of fever , I cough all the time . |
| 15 | You 're pretending that you 're speaking to somebody and just speak all the time . |
| 16 | I read all the time , rapidly and voraciously . |
| 17 | Quoting Surridge 's formula — ‘ Attack all the time , whether batting , bowling or fielding |
| 18 | I think it stays open all the time now . |
| 19 | Leave one of the little windows open all the time . |
| 20 | If such firms are efficient then probably everyone knows who is doing well , through the informal appraisals that happen all the time . |
| 21 | ‘ These things happen all the time , ’ he said sceptically when Nikos came in to report them . |
| 22 | always say this because , you know , developments happen all the time , but as far as we know , genes are handed on as complete discrete enti entities , in units is what discovered . |
| 23 | The League Against Cruel Sports launching its latest campaign in Swindon , says similar acts happen all the time throughout the hunting world . |
| 24 | And her dispatches indeed reveal a bombshell : that despite protestations to the contrary in white American fiction , race has been its subject matter all the time . |
| 25 | And they look and look all the time . |
| 26 | Well I do n't know , but she , I said , cos she 's telling me about her coming , only three days up the hospital then she 's got ta go back to her own place because Ian said she 'd never managed , she keeps falling and she said this woman never went to see her once when she was in hospital , yet she 's getting paid it look all the time , and she ought to go to see if there 's anything she wants you see |
| 27 | Iron runs a iron works run all the time . |
| 28 | Do n't you get fed up with Country rock Beach Boy Prefab Sprout Lloyd Cole pop all the time ? ) is an appalling one . |
| 29 | You do n't have to be win lose all the time , because otherwise you 're gon na have a battle . |
| 30 | When I cook , I eat all the time . |