Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur Bennett was a builder and house decorator , living in Croydon , England , who devoted a great deal of time and energy to the study of the Scottish flora . |
| 2 | This religion , known as Zoroastrianism , involved a teleological interpretation of time . |
| 3 | It just seemed a total waste of time to bother redecorating it — the only solution seemed to be removing the chimney , adding an extension , or both . |
| 4 | So he hung back for what seemed an interminable length of time , in the shadow of a dripping tree , waiting for them to move on . |
| 5 | I opened the old copy of Time magazine I had beside me . |
| 6 | Carers expended a tremendous amount of time and energy in this role . |
| 7 | Soon this mood of despair evaporated under the influence of serene letters from Helen , who flourished among the intimate circle of artistic Bohemian young people — including the poet Charles Dalmon and the actor Franklin Dyall — who lived in Hammersmith and spent a great deal of time at Mrs Logan 's large house which had been furnished and decorated in William Morris style . |
| 8 | I spent a great deal of time and study on it , over half a year , before I was ready to conduct it . |
| 9 | We spent a great deal of time familiarizing ourselves with the music by playing it at subscription concerts and youth concerts . |
| 10 | In its initial year the new department spent a great deal of time and energy intervening in the private sector to try to save jobs , especially in the cutlery and engineering sectors . |
| 11 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 12 | He also spent a great deal of time strolling around New York 's back streets observing down-and-outs to see if he could steal anything from them — for the role , that is . |
| 13 | Wolfgang spent a great deal of time in the company of J C Bach , with whom he struck up a friendship , and who was delighted to engage in amicable improvisation contests on the keyboard . |
| 14 | And while she always spent a great deal of time and money on their Christmas presents , they only ever sent her a packet of scented drawer liners or a box of soap . |
| 15 | ‘ She met all our residents and spent a great deal of time chatting with them . |
| 16 | It was always good , the more so because he spent a great deal of time trapped indoors by his choice of work , a choice governed by his wish to acquire a useful little nest-egg in a relatively short time . |
| 17 | Marrying the widowed sister of Henry I , he was created Earl of Huntingdon , and before becoming king spent a great deal of time in the land and company of his brother-in-law . |
| 18 | He spent a great deal of time on the telephone and he was often out of the house on various missions , not returning until late at night . |
| 19 | Being unmarried and childless she was unaware that many quite normal women spent a great deal of time talking to and feeding people whom they would not , themselves , have chosen to entertain . |
| 20 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 21 | He spent a great deal of time in the yard below with the carpenters and masons who were making the pageant cart for the coronation procession . |
| 22 | He spent a great deal of time in similar situations , seeking gold or demons or distressed virgins and relieving them respectively of their owners , their lives and at least one cause of their distress . |
| 23 | He spent a great deal of time in his efforts certainly for this trade union and in recruitment where he works , he 's made it not hundred percent , hundred and ten percent and is constantly , er , recruiting constantly recruiting . |
| 24 | He spent a great deal of time inexpertly milking complaining cows , only to feed most of the milk to the pigs . |
| 25 | And that was someone from Nottingham University who spent a great deal of time grumbling about the bus service from Mansfield to Edwinstowe . |
| 26 | This was not quite so convenient for her , and she spent a good deal of time travelling back and forth in her carriage . |
| 27 | As a fellow Australian and all-round boozer , Flynn took a tremendous liking to Finch , and , not surprisingly , they spent a good deal of time drinking together . |
| 28 | The Authority spent a good deal of time trying to persuade such Boards to avoid deficits by raising tariffs to remunerative levels , but commercial disciplines were inevitably weakened by such dual responsibility and ad hoc decisions . |
| 29 | Unlike the Jakob cats , Griselda spent a good deal of time out of doors . |
| 30 | She spent a good deal of time in the kitchen and bullied Dora into showing her how to make bread and pastry ; she would take cookery books up to her room and study the methods of jam making and preserving fruit and vegetables . |