Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a semi-hard-on the whole time he was bathing her , and without warning she grabbed him by it , and led him to the bath . |
| 2 | It does n't sound much but you 've got to watch out these days , with everything constantly getting cheaper and Tod grimly counting his money the whole time . |
| 3 | Fine September days with the last of the summer sun present the ideal time to build a new pond |
| 4 | In 1868 , Donders attempted to measure the additional time taken by certain mental processes such as discrimination and choice . |
| 5 | When operating at low speed the freewheeling time of the phase currents is short compared to the total excitation time and for most of the cycle the phase current is carried by the switching transistors . |
| 6 | He had his hand on my neck the whole time and kept saying I would get it . |
| 7 | In my mind the whole time there is the simple question , ‘ What is it the music is supposed to say ? ’ |
| 8 | It was like he had something on his mind the whole time . ’ |
| 9 | He used to sit in his study the whole time . |
| 10 | Truth is he 'll bring all the booze the other time did n't he ? |
| 11 | Do n't miss any more because it 's going to be difficult fitting the extra time aft |
| 12 | Unless the rules are changed despite her talent the only time Jodi Evans will score points for Oxford University — is at an exhibition match — or in practice . |
| 13 | Twenty children were flown to Croydon , and ‘ They were all cheerfully sick , enticed by the little paper bags , except a baby of one who slept peacefully in my lap the whole time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him . |
| 15 | ‘ You were in a rotten mood the whole time . |
| 16 | You would n't like to be chased all over the place the whole time would you ? |
| 17 | People take to nature the whole time . |
| 18 | Never mind Tuesday I was at placement the whole time and we sort of |
| 19 | General Ghazi Kenaan , commander of Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon , was on top of every move the whole time . |
| 20 | We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed . |
| 21 | In another letter he wrote : ‘ I did n't see a cock the whole time — except my own and that glimpsed only briefly in a cracked mirror . ’ |
| 22 | I had a tremendous struggle to keep my medication the whole time I was in Holloway , and it started again when I went to Styal . |
| 23 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 24 | My friend Kevin , muscleman and minicab driver , says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it was n't tipping down with rain the whole time . |
| 25 | People were wandering in and out of that room the whole time , he might have been seen . ’ |
| 26 | He kept the gun pointed at Connelly 's head the entire time , the barrel never more than inches from his face . |
| 27 | Nurse Motley said that except for a moment when she picked up a piece of paper and threw it in the bin , she had been standing by Kayley 's head the whole time . |
| 28 | I felt tremendous guilt the whole time , I felt so ashamed of these terrible thoughts locked inside me . |
| 29 | but you 're in the water the whole time . |
| 30 | If for example the full time officers er negotiated with you know , for a district rate , erm Brothers and , and , and er er or whoever would concede that district rate . |