Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , I thought that now that the M S has acquired that bus and it 's going to be standing around doing nothing for most of the time and it 's a twenty nine seater bus . |
| 2 | well it is n't even a priority , it 's nothing , they wo n't get the money , th they wo n't pay for walk to go swimming but I thought that now that the has acquired that bus and it 's gon na be standing around doing nothing for most of the time and it 's a twenty nine seater bus . |
| 3 | And I had the TV cameras on me for most of the time . |
| 4 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 5 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 6 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 7 | But you see the point , so in our species and of course in most societies this is true men are breadwinners whether in an agricultural society or an industrial society erm you know one often feels that if you 're the man in the family you earn all the money your wife spends it on most of the time erm it certainly happens to me er |
| 8 | The children amuse themselves for much of the time , with the local swimming pool proving a favourite treat . |