Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're sorta runnin' about all the time , so you do n't get time for anythin' else really . |
| 2 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 3 | When you 've got an engine , erm , you Let's say we 've got an engine with a fixed amount of petrol going in all the time . |
| 4 | The discussion may be restricted to impeccably intellectual topics , but the play of market forces is going on all the time just below the surface . |
| 5 | This is a process which is going on all the time in the world of bacteria , and drug firms are managing to keep ahead , just , by producing newer ( and inevitably , more expensive ) antibiotics that will still be effective . |
| 6 | Although Fred pretended to be surprised at my earnings I felt sure he knew what was going on all the time . |
| 7 | He just asked for more erm , one thing that is disturbing , what he does very causally mention is what is going on all the time |
| 8 | Assessing his impact on the reading public , Graham Greene wrote that he had ‘ some of the qualities of Dr Johnson — a plainness , an honesty , a sense of ordinary life going on all the time ’ . |
| 9 | Caution is necessary , however , because not all of these activities were certainly going on all the time . |
| 10 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 11 | These things are going on all the time . |
| 12 | ‘ There are double and triple checks going on all the time . ’ |
| 13 | I says God flipping hell what 's going up here , then , something going on all the time int there ? |
| 14 | Because he likes to see what 's going on all the time . |
| 15 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 16 | This is what the manufacturers of hi-fi equipment are striving towards all the time , and the DNA-replication process , as we have seen , is spectactularly good at reducing errors . |
| 17 | The journalist sees new products coming through all the time , and though some of them represent a real breakthrough in their field most are not really very exciting . |
| 18 | All that weight of water 's coming through all the time . |
| 19 | It is important that an orchestra has new young players coming in all the time — we recently had a young Polish violinist who is one of the orchestra 's concert-masters , he is very promising , and full of music — but sometimes players leave us to fulfil their own dreams and ambitions . |
| 20 | and so on , every month their money is straight into the bank all their cheques come in straight into the bank so he 'll , you know , and I mean our pla , and the whole of the site nearly is let out for different people , you know , which is money coming in all the time |
| 21 | ‘ It was like a cafe , with people dropping in all the time . |
| 22 | I once knitted almost half of the front of a sweater in tuck stitch , continually dropping stitches and muttering at all the time I was spending picking them up . |
| 23 | Conscious of a ball not carrying through all the time to Jack Russell and while a slash or a drive will go very fast to them , have to be sure that the ball is going to carry . |
| 24 | But that but that 's tha that 's defeating the whole object of the exercise of getting you know more foot patrols , because it 's foot patrols that they 're talking about all the time , if you give 'em a car you go back to the you know the fire brigade syndrome when it was zip zip zip |
| 25 | She does n't know what she 's talking about half the time , she does n't know who anybody is . |
| 26 | It 's not clever like us , falling over all the time . |
| 27 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 28 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |