Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] all the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 2 | When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were . |
| 3 | Chief Insp Malcolm Fordy of Barnard Castle police said video cameras were recording all the time at Barnard Castle Bridge over the River Tees . |
| 4 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 5 | Drivers from the taxi firm WTN used were arriving all the time with equipment , food and people . |
| 6 | Young kids , some of them not even teenagers , were arriving all the time , mostly for reasons that they had n't thought through or could n't express . |
| 7 | ‘ But they were quarrelling all the time ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ After the demise of our great team in ‘ 86 we were building sand castles for a while — they were collapsing all the time . |
| 9 | I thought they were supposed to be a professional outfit but they were whingeing all the time . ’ |
| 10 | It sometimes felt that she was blushing all the time . |
| 11 | She felt she was blushing all the time on these trips , at the conditions of life they were intruding upon , at Jannie 's plans to turn it to their advantage , at Jannie 's evident affection for her . |
| 12 | Public interest in athletics was growing all the time and it was good to be coming through while that was happening . |
| 13 | Things were particularly bad for the people who owed Miss Louise because the interest was growing all the time . |
| 14 | The raft of crashed boats had now reached 1,500 and was growing all the time . |
| 15 | He became especially good as a one-day containing bowler , playing a big part in his county 's successes , and contributing many useful , if very idiosyncratic , lower middle order runs ; while his Test bowling average was declining , his batting figure was improving all the time , and reached a handy 21 . |
| 16 | Well it 's all the practice cos I mean he was moving all the time ! |
| 17 | The water was rising all the time , and we had to seal him inside a waterproof bag and drag him through the sump . ’ |
| 18 | I was crying all the time . |
| 19 | When he was winning all the time , people spoke of his alleged meanness and refusal to communicate ; when he fell foul of the Inland Revenue they carefully looked the other way . |
| 20 | er , well that was changing all the time but we had erm like |
| 21 | Her eyes still had that dazed , almost glazed look , but beginning to focus now , though not on me , on Gómez , and she was screaming all the time . |