Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams began studying in his spare time in 1897 and taught himself Latin and Greek , enrolling in a correspondence course at Ruskin Hall , Oxford , in 1900 . |
| 2 | What she chose to do in her spare time was absolutely no business of his . |
| 3 | She started the course in July 1989 and chose to study by the distance learning method , which meant working in her own time . |
| 4 | She also had to work in her spare time to help pay for her studies . |
| 5 | As a student at Columbia University , New York — where he took a degree and a doctorate — and subsequently as a teacher of biochemistry at Boston University , he continued to write in his spare time . |
| 6 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 7 | The slave wars are not to be separated , in Posidonius ' mind , from the civil wars he had seen in his own time . |
| 8 | Mr Major insisted that nobody was sent by the Tory Party to take part in last year 's presidential campaign and that two Central Office staff whose trip was funded by the Republicans had gone in their own time and paid their own personal expenses . |
| 9 | Posidonius took the Roman victory for granted and analysed the series of crises through which the Roman state had passed in his own time . |
| 10 | They would say whatever it was they had to say in their own time . |