Example sentences of "her [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The morning was her usual time for coming , a flurry of nurses preceding her , squaring comers of blankets , clearing lockers , thumping pillows , crisp and antiseptic as they swept through . |
| 2 | It was her usual time . |
| 3 | Erm Joanna 's coming in I think at erm her usual time . |
| 4 | her usual time |
| 5 | He had kissed her and left , giving her ample time in which to dress , to comb her hair , to apply lipstick to lips which were softly bruised by her lover 's ardour . |
| 6 | Ven would love it if , though he 'd given her ample time , she kept him waiting . |
| 7 | The landlady is clearly not yet up and about , suggesting there is little chance of her serving breakfast earlier than her declared time of seven thirty . |
| 8 | Fortunately she had become interested in the art and history of the city and spent most of her free time visiting galleries , museums and churches . |
| 9 | Paula spent most of her free time alone , window shopping , visiting News Theatres , where she sometimes watched the programme of cartoons twice round , and drinking endless cups of Espresso coffee in cafés and coffee houses . |
| 10 | She spends much of her free time with boyfriend Andy , 23 , who works as a forklift truck driver . |
| 11 | She had kept her looks and her health , and had spent her free time productively with a variety of projects and committees . |
| 12 | It was after this that Mrs Kelsall , a midwifery sister and joint team leader , embarked on a project that was to take up most of her free time for the next two years . |
| 13 | Beth Archer , a photography student , spends her free time photographing the natural world of Raintree Wood . |
| 14 | Ms Streisand , in the same paper , claimed that the press would be happier if she spent her free time shopping , and pointed out , quite fairly , that she and the others at the correspondents ' dinner had been invited there . |
| 15 | She did n't smoke and never drank , preferring to spend her free time reading , watching television , visiting friends or going out for supper in modest bistros . |
| 16 | As the days meandered into each other she found herself spending all her free time painting , even though she had known almost from the start that painting him was not going to exorcise him . |
| 17 | Then , it had added another stamp of ‘ difference ’ on a child whose father rarely appeared in the family home and who spent most of her free time in the company of paid supervisors . |
| 18 | A devoutly religious person , she has arranged for our interview to take place in the church where she spends much of her free time , in advance of today 's Good Friday service . |
| 19 | Most of her free time was spent in Water Gypsy 's main cabin , reliving the memories it held for her . |
| 20 | She has spent her free time researching the book and is now looking for a publisher . |
| 21 | She only had two weeks from her free time . |
| 22 | Easy enough to fill her empty time , time without love , without Lucy . |
| 23 | The foliage in the park was turning to burnished gold and Rachel knew that in a few short weeks the temperature would drop , the leaves would fall and once again her favourite time of year would be over . |
| 24 | He had chosen this woman specifically because she was the sort she was — a simple type , immediately responsive to the baby , no outside involvements , so she was free to give her entire time to him , willing to do without time off while the baby was still on the breast , and not expecting the massive salary most women would want for a job like this . |
| 25 | Slightly bemused , she realised that the businesslike urgency appeared to be entirely on her side , in spite of the earlier impression that he knew how busy she must be , that he had no wish to waste any of her valuable time … |
| 26 | Joanne 's commitment to the next 12 months will leave her little time for the hobbies that she enjoyed before tennis came along . |
| 27 | Giving her little time to question this version of the truth , he swings the car off the main road all concrete and glass buildings and turns down a tiny side street . |
| 28 | The work was leaving her little time for herself and so she decided to simplify the task . |
| 29 | She saw herself wheeled along white corridors , wired up to huge machines that clicked , whirred , and flashed lights : this was her greatest fear , that she might be kept alive artificially by machinery , a mumbling vegetable , after her natural time to die had arrived . |
| 30 | It was a day of sweet triumph for Kylie , her long time friend Jason and Stock , Aitken and Waterman , the musical masterminds behind them . |