Example sentences of "and [adj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than just that shop where you go in you can go all round and wander round and you do n't see anybody only filling the shelves up and half the time they do n't even , ca n't even advise you where to go can they you know . |
| 2 | And half the time |
| 3 | He 'd tell me things there , and I 'd get so excited about whatever he said was going to happen , and half the time he 'd just made it up . ’ |
| 4 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 5 | He probably will have six later on , if he gets it off , but the thing is , I mean , he 'll need somebody to drive wagons round yard , and half the time , y you know , he 'll be sat doing nothing , scratching his nose . |
| 6 | I mean , it 's not as nice a pint as now that Whitbread 's have taken over and half the time . |
| 7 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 8 | He 's going to give a price and somebody else is going to give a price in competition , and half the time if he 's lucky he 'll get the jobs . |
| 9 | Parts were always going wrong , and half the time computers were out of action as technicians laboriously tried to find and remedy faults . |
| 10 | But I would like to say to you that in my view , and in the view of the organisation I represent , Phoenix Trust , by and large the time is long past for analysis . |
| 11 | And all the time I 'm taking further steps away . |
| 12 | And all the time , I was working away until midnight preparing the juices . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And I thought it was those rats or my silly old brain and all the time it was you , young man . ’ |
| 14 | And all the time he had been asking ‘ When can I go home ? ’ |
| 15 | And all the time , in this turmoil of sexual ambiguities , we were talking about words , about poetry . |
| 16 | ( And all the time , at the back of my mind , the pedestals of famous philosophers , teachers , and experts were falling , until by the time I reached my own road they were just ordinary human beings . ) |
| 17 | I did n't like the feeling ; it brought it home to me how much you are judged by how you look , all the time , and how weird it feels when you are talking to this compere , and all the time you know he is n't listening to a word you are saying , just looking down your cleavage . |
| 18 | Relieved Signor Alfio Leonardi , the Mayor , said : ‘ The news means we should be able to have a peaceful Easter , and all the time necessary to evaluate the situation properly . ’ |
| 19 | And all the time there were the escalating costs for handling , packaging and processing the wastes at the Sellafield complex . |
| 20 | And all the time the line of force which bound her to her husband stretched and vibrated so that her heart in secret haemorrhage , gushed blood . |
| 21 | It did n't take him long , and all she wanted were her books and all the time the mother was crying and rocking backwards and forwards and the old father was ranting on in Yiddish . |
| 22 | I make no impression on it and all the time I am afraid that its flapping tail will come down on the taut line and snap it like a dry twig . |
| 23 | The printer was careless , George Burnett a forgetful and utterly incompetent assistant , and all the time Sara 's groans of pain were announcing the early stages of a difficult pregnancy . |
| 24 | And all the time she 's here it 's ‘ What can I do ? ’ and ‘ Can I do this ? ’ |
| 25 | And all the time I kept up the visualization . |
| 26 | Then , for more than 300 years until the legions left , the Romans ruled Britain , bringing their talent for organisation to the country , building roads which made travel easier , and all the time controlling the province through the administration of Roman law — backed up by the powerful legions of the Roman army . |
| 27 | There they were imagining satyrs and succubae and God knows what manner of obscene delights , and all the time it was just a baby ! |
| 28 | And all the time the voices are calling and echoing … ’ |
| 29 | And all the time I could read the writing upside-down on his desk : ‘ Reason for Referral : Bouts of uncontrollable aggression . ’ |
| 30 | ’ ’ I 'm sure I 'm going to leave the ground and float up and hit my head on the ceiling , and all the time the voices are call ‘ DO IT DO IT DO IT … ’ |