Example sentences of "when all the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could she sit calmly and read a magazine , when all the time she knew that any moment there would be a knock on the door , and Luke would be standing there , waiting ? |
| 2 | He remembered his sporadic visits back to Taler 's Bump , the shy little girl who 'd been virtually a stranger to him , his awkward attempts at being a family man when all the time he 'd only been yearning to get back to work . |
| 3 | It would have meant nothing to that pervert to let her stay … he had wielded the knife , the cruel swine … telling her he regretted there was nothing for her when all the time he was still hiring people … examining her through that monocle as though he was God … |
| 4 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 5 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 6 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a terrible appetite-killer , sitting opposite someone who picks and fiddles with their food , when all the time you 're desperate to tuck in like a pig . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Me struggling to prove a point when all the time you 've decided , made up your mind . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why should I care what you feel when all the time you behave like a monster ? ’ she asked rhetorically . |
| 10 | ‘ There was I , feeling flattered at the attention you were paying me , when all the time you were just testing me out to see that I would n't dry up on the air ! |
| 11 | And we cling to history as a series of salon pictures , conversation pieces whose participants we can easily reimagine back into life , when all the time it 's more like a multi-media collage , with paint applied by decorator 's roller rather than camel-hair brush . |