Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] all the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , since free fighting changes all the time to meet new circumstances and requirements , the stances also change at a rapid pace . |
| 2 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |
| 3 | On this personal level he is aware that change happens all the time and what is important to him , as it is to any composer , are ‘ those moments when people come up to me and say , ‘ this work has changed my life ’ ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's like being on your honour to work all the time . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm happier working alone , not having my work judged all the time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It becomes an insult to your intelligence to read all the time about surging confidence when you know that things are getting tougher , if anything . |
| 7 | this stupid thing is is going and taping rugby matches all the time ! |
| 8 | This standard is tested not by an end-of-year exam but by adding the classwork marks throughout the year , so the child knows all the time how he is getting on . |
| 9 | Consequently , this year 's lead pollution will add to that of all previous years so that its environmental presence increases all the time . |
| 10 | He died in a car accident the year I left school , but I listened to his pop records all the time . |
| 11 | His hands and body moved all the time . |
| 12 | He pushes me to make stuff whilst you just cruise around and do nose feebles all the time . |
| 13 | We were weary and did n't spare a thought for how she must be feeling — sick in the mornings , with a husband flying all the time . |
| 14 | I mean some people were quite willing to answer it and they were quite willing to say what stereotypes they usually employ and others j er just clam up and said , oh I never judge people , and I thought yeah liar doing all the time ? biggest gossips in the office and she 's never got a good word to say about anyone , she 's always digging the dirt but when I presented her with it , I never try to judge people . |
| 15 | You can put red lamps round it at night , and have the place manned all the time . " |
| 16 | Is there perhaps a more significant conflict , however , between a conscious determination to enjoy your work and the need to think all the time of team requirements and of the specific obligations these impose ? |
| 17 | ALL V8 engines 1970 to date will run on lead free ALL the time with no modifications at all except post 1981 high compression and EFi engines which need the timing retarding 3° |
| 18 | When the bell sounded and the ghost figures pitched from the huts to form the lines at the Kitchen , he remained , his attention held all the time by the upper strands of wire and the topmost line of the wooden knee . |
| 19 | Eyes looking back and I 'd got the old bit moving all the time keeping , he said righto get out , you 're leading me , they were too pleased to get rid of them . |
| 20 | This enables you to maintain a continuous check on both the direct input off the microphone as well as playbacks of the recorded sound , though the earpiece and its connecting cord can be something of a nuisance to wear all the time . |
| 21 | The phone rings all the time ; people call ; cups of tea and coffee seem to be needed by invalid and visitors at surprisingly frequent intervals ! |
| 22 | the water changes all the time … you have to watch the cross wind and be careful under the bridge where the boat may lift … |
| 23 | The receipt of money and the audit of accounts were routine operations which the Exchequer conducted all the time without needing any instruction or authorization for doing so . |
| 24 | My head aches all the time . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's just possible , I suppose — if she keeps her head averted all the time — but I agree it 's unlikely . |
| 26 | A pipe or cigarette burns all the time , and just wastes smoke when the user is not drawing on it . |
| 27 | She shepherded him towards the Captain talking all the time . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's what a novelist does all the time . |
| 29 | Because Uncle Mosse left his door unlocked all the time at the end and he did not mind who came in and out , as he said . |
| 30 | And her dispatches indeed reveal a bombshell : that despite protestations to the contrary in white American fiction , race has been its subject matter all the time . |