Example sentences of "of [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am as I am , a woman of my times , and I wo n't pretend . |
| 2 | Well that 's a bit big that 's not in any of my times tables . |
| 3 | If grey was the colour that characterized the first phase of my time at Harwich , blue characterizes this next phase . |
| 4 | I spend a great deal of my time in the Community ; Brussels and Luxembourg for the most part . |
| 5 | A considerable amount of my time since Annual Conference has been spent in following up Resolution No 25 which called for a specialist review of administration and expenditure . |
| 6 | Working as an au pair I spend most of my time in the house with young children , so I dress casually — usually in tracksuits or jeans . |
| 7 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 8 | Being a forestry contractor and spending most of my time in woods and moors , I need a tyre with a lot more traction . |
| 9 | And more than Pringle 's will make this year , if you waste any more of my time . ’ |
| 10 | I spent most of my time — too much I would say now — on the secretarial agencies . |
| 11 | The remainder of my time with him was spent picking up tips on desert survival . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most important regular question to keep asking yourself , even have it up on your wall where you can see it often , is : Am I making the best use of my time right now ? |
| 13 | Since delegation can occur at any time a basic question you the manager should regularly be asking yourself is : ‘ At this moment , am I making the best use of my time ? ’ |
| 14 | Much of my time is spent doing things I do n't enjoy |
| 15 | ‘ A quarter of my time is spent directly seeing new and on-going clients , a quarter of my time at ward rounds , meetings , seeing other professionals , etc ; a quarter spent with support workers — either possible new ones or on-going workers ; and a quarter spent keeping records , fixing meetings , doing wages , etc . |
| 16 | ‘ A quarter of my time is spent directly seeing new and on-going clients , a quarter of my time at ward rounds , meetings , seeing other professionals , etc ; a quarter spent with support workers — either possible new ones or on-going workers ; and a quarter spent keeping records , fixing meetings , doing wages , etc . |
| 17 | I would like to give them more of my time . |
| 18 | I had conceived my fictional , pastoral church within which I now spent so much of my time during an imaging session at the Centre , but I had yet to see it in reality . |
| 19 | These seem to be the topics that engage most of my time , and there is no evidence that any of them are freakish , minority interests . |
| 20 | It was the end of my time in the Caribbean , of the sheltered , warm , family life that I had known there , and the beginning of a new and exciting era . |
| 21 | From the foregoing , you will see that my experience , and hence the bulk of this talk , revolves around engineering applications although for the last 9 months of my time in post I also was responsible for supply aspects of AI and I will cover this briefly . |
| 22 | For the next four years a great part of my time was spent in secret meditation upon this subject , I could not speak to anybody about it for fear of giving pain . |
| 23 | Keep asking yourself throughout the day ‘ Is this the best use of my time ? ’ |
| 24 | Most of my time , however , was spent in Tunbridge Wells . |
| 25 | A lot of my time is spent going to galleries and exhibitions . |
| 26 | Freddie took my few belongings up to the garret where I was to sleep and spend most of my time until the baby was born . |
| 27 | Although I was spending most of my time writing the book on Americans abroad , I see from my records of the late 1960s that I was also presenting several television programmes , both in London and in the north . |
| 28 | At school I worked hard , spending most of my time in the library . |
| 29 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 30 | Futch , who 's trained five world champions and who originally rejected Bowe , says : ‘ I was in my late 70s after Bowe 's Olympic defeat and I did n't want to waste a minute of my time on someone who was n't 100 per cent dedicated . ’ |