Example sentences of "he [verb] [det] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging by the polls , the parents agree with the teachers , not Patten , and watching him shouting all the time , I ca n't say I blame them . ’ |
| 2 | He untied the rope and then bent , inspecting the horse carefully , examining each leg , and they could hear him talking all the time , soothing , quiet words that stilled the animal . |
| 3 | He had absorbed enough knowledge of lighting in his career to know who was being given the best spots , and he fought all the time to get Therese pushed out when he was on stage . |
| 4 | Oh he 's off work and you see he has all the time off for councils and you know it is n't as if he 's there fulltime . |
| 5 | He grumbled all the time , but was really quite happy because he did not allow himself to worry . |
| 6 | What the hell did he do all the time , except drink ? |
| 7 | I really love the way he says all the time when things start to go wrong : ‘ I do n't think so . ’ |
| 8 | We did a great deal of work with music and in listening to sounds and in rhythms , and then a lot of work in which I actually read to him and he followed all the time what I was reading , so that he would try to link the sounds and the words together . |
| 9 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
| 10 | Well , I remember my father saying of the old Baron that in his last illness he talked all the time of there being a grandson . |
| 11 | When Therese was on stage without him , he talked all the time . |
| 12 | I hated Gionesca because he complained all the time , and I knew that I could get away with hating him because I was stronger and fitter than him . |
| 13 | He tries all the time and never gives up . |
| 14 | I do n't think he listens half the time . |
| 15 | But then , a few days later , Mervyn Stockwood revealed that he had all the time in fact been helping dissident priests in a variety of clandestine ways , still too secret to be fully detailed : not so much a Red Bishop as a clerical Scarlet Pimpernel . |
| 16 | He 'd been in the house for nearly six weeks now and although he had not yet been called upon to take part in a Vibrancy performance , he had all the time in the world to practise . |
| 17 | He gave one to Corbett before sitting down opposite , sipping from his own cup as if he had all the time in the world . |
| 18 | He kissed her lingeringly as if he had all the time in the world and she felt a shudder run through her at the response he was forcing from her with so little effort . |
| 19 | Now he had all the time in the world to read and discuss the serious question : what can Third World countries do to alleviate their debt crisis ? |
| 20 | He smoked all the time and at the end asked me to walk with him in the Park . |
| 21 | ‘ He is now , ’ said Franca , ‘ but , well , as you know , he talks all the time . ’ |