Example sentences of "[adj] the time for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although it may be true that readers of Hot Press for example , are n't led by sexual ignorance into seeing man and woman only as adversaries , there also are those girls who are forced to go to England all the time for abortions and they ca n't be that far from the world I depict . |
| 2 | He waited a long while , looking out all the time for Caspar . |
| 3 | Ask the same people all the time for help or money . |
| 4 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 5 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 6 | We are together all the time for weeks and months on end . |
| 7 | Fortunately during the first few months of our marriage Bernard , how shall I put it , practised asceticism — I had no chance of getting pregnant , or very little , and after that he was converted to Marxism , and though we were at it all the time for years , he stood over me daily to make sure I ingested a contraceptive chemical . |
| 8 | I wondered how these men had managed to endure thirty or more trips in what must have been far worse conditions than this ; in bad weather , being shot at , having to concentrate on map reading and peering through bomb sites , and watching out all the time for enemy fighters . |
| 9 | Trembling violently he swallowed the brandy and ate the food like a hunted animal , looking around him all the time for danger . |