Example sentences of "they [adj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load . |
| 2 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 3 | I know , we used to drive round in them half the time ! |
| 4 | Basically , it was a late surviving example of 19th century employers ' attitudes towards their staff : checking up on them all the time or they 'd have their hands in the till , It was straight out of H.G. Wells ' Mr Kipps . |
| 5 | We had to push them all the time , all the time . |
| 6 | Wears them all the time , even when she 's out digging . |
| 7 | The round mahogany table , friend of my childhood , under whose shelter I had lain and read ; whose clawed brass feet I had cleaned every Saturday morning when young , and then later , admiring them all the time — never having seen any other claws as fine or as lifelike as these . |
| 8 | ‘ What , you mean you hear them all the time ? |
| 9 | ‘ We say we ca n't keep an eye on them all the time , but the girls are under strict control . ’ |
| 10 | It must be remembered , too , that plants which contain medicinally active substances often do not contain them all the time in all their parts . |
| 11 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |
| 12 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 13 | The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time . |
| 14 | Certainly you did not quarrel with them all the time . |
| 15 | Lone inventors are by no means all nutters , but we can sympathise with anyone who has to deal with them all the time . |
| 16 | ‘ All our things are country things that have been well used over the years , and we use them all the time , and live with them , and enjoy them . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 18 | There 's bedsitters and lodgings and stuff near where I live — the actors who come to the theatre move in and out of them all the time . |
| 19 | She chases them all the time , delivering butts and bites freely and she pulls the filters from the tank walls . |
| 20 | Favourite guitars , expensive combos , trick rack systems — you ca n't watch them all the time , and they 're so easy to lift . |
| 21 | ‘ David Lindley plays them all the time , and they 're special because not only is the body hollow , but the neck is hollow too . |
| 22 | You need three paint brushes ( you should already have these and be using them all the time ) : a ) Clean brush for cleaning the fluff from the actual machine — around the needles and so on . |
| 23 | ‘ They have made us offers and kept changing them all the time . |
| 24 | And I can tell you something , I do n't want to talk about them all the time . |
| 25 | We use them all the time for going places . |
| 26 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 27 | I was with them all the time … ’ |
| 28 | Certainly we er have extensive contacts with almost all the drama teachers in schools in the surrounding area through the amateurs in contact with them all the time . |
| 29 | Do we let them look at it — contemplating — do n't we hustle them all the time ? |
| 30 | They 're going to be confused yes , very confused , I mean on the football pitch you usually get the trainer run man and they 're talking to the footballer and it 's looking at them all the time and he will ask questions , erm what 's your name ? |