Example sentences of "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 . ’
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