Example sentences of "be on [adj] the time " in BNC.
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1 | At night a light had to be on all the time and Blake 's prison clothes had to be placed outside his cell while , during the day , the clothes he wore had distinctive patches of coloured cloth on them to show that he was on the escape list . |
2 | If he does , it should certainly not be on all the time . |
3 | It 's gon na be on all the time |
4 | Oh it has to be on all the time has it ? |
5 | Yeah , it 's been on all the time is n't it ? |
6 | and the writing and reading , but I mean before they were on all the time |
7 | I suppose the television 's on all the time here . ’ |
8 | but er see this is er , and this is Africa but , I mean it 's on all the time int |
9 | Television is fine provided you are selective in your viewing , but not If it is on all the time . |
10 | If the electronic switch ( S ) depicted in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 was on all the time , the input and output voltages would be identical . |