Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [det] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ David Lindley plays them all the time , and they 're special because not only is the body hollow , but the neck is hollow too . |
| 2 | ‘ Ian Paisley does it all the time and it 's considered quite normal . ’ |
| 3 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 4 | Erik watches it all the time . |
| 5 | ‘ We can have the Jheri-Curls chasin' us all the time tryin' to cut our hair and throw chemicals in it ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Confidence tricksters do it all the time . |
| 7 | The eccentric bachelor Intrigued me all the time . |
| 8 | Well he is worried about them having an accident with it but , but he 's not er worried about him having the motorbike , no he cos he would have done the same as a er child anyway well things like that , but erm what he 's worried about is that er with Ryan i and the other boy , n not Ryan so much , the other boy does it all the time , they 're churning all the grass up all over there in great big |
| 9 | Though this is impossible to us as humans , nature does it all the time . |
| 10 | Impatience even — which is a blight threatening us all the time . ’ |
| 11 | Surely he meant that Johnson read it all the time , as Boswell wrote it ? |
| 12 | Some people wear it all the time because they think it acts as a barrier against the weather but I believe in letting your skin breathe so I always wear as little as possible . |
| 13 | I do n't think Christ meant us all the time |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not very happy about it either , ’ said Masklin , ‘ but Shrub 's people do it all the time . |
| 15 | People do it all the time . |
| 16 | ‘ People do it all the time . ’ |
| 17 | My branch manager does it all the time . |
| 18 | Yes , my branch manager does it all the time , yes , it 's his regular way out . |
| 19 | I do n't like people attacking me all the time . ’ |
| 20 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
| 21 | Carole says it all the time . |
| 22 | Local negotiators like me take a lot of stick and I 'm just gon na pass that stick straight on to you , because my members tell me all the time , I pay one thirty five a week , well so do I . |
| 23 | We ca n't just keep asking the people that actually pay to come to the matches to do it all the time , they have to be supplemented from industry anyway . |
| 24 | The bearded man watched him all the time . |
| 25 | The Happening ( tonight , Channel 4 , 12.40am ) is , says Jools , a : ‘ psychedlic vortex of music and love with guests and talent of extraordinary high stature lifting you all the time … and all happening around one grand piano ! ’ |
| 26 | If ‘ highly sexed ’ means , ‘ Do men want it all the time , ie are you keen to have it every night ? ’ , |
| 27 | There was a sister watching us all the time , and when we went to walk out into the garden she said it was n't allowed . |
| 28 | I go back to thinking that the best way of changing the environment of the colleges would be to try and erm I mean talking again as if it 's boys perpetrating it all the time erm boys will stop doing it if women respond differently . |
| 29 | Phillis played it all the time : for old times sake wo n't you give my heart a break ? |
| 30 | Birds did it all the time with ease and grace , but for the crews of the bombers that flew from Fenton Bishop aerodrome she knew that to take off meant dry-mouthed apprehension and an ice-cold hand that twisted your guts and made you want to throw up the supper you had neither tasted nor enjoyed . |