Example sentences of "[prep] my [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robb , who will be making his international debut over the distance , said : ‘ I had a lot more left at the end and can take several seconds off my winning time of 3 minutes 39.58 seconds in Rome if the race is fast . ’ |
| 2 | Through the whole tenor of my school-day time |
| 3 | Only because it 's one of my all time favourite riffs … |
| 4 | For fifteen years I 've spent much of my spare time scrabbling and grovelling about in the mud and gravels of our upland waterways . |
| 5 | I am so pleased with the Elna ; I began making my bedroom curtains some time ago , but had to steel myself and put them away , as the ‘ British Biographies ’ book was exerting great pressure to keep to its schedule and I had to work on it in much of my spare time . |
| 6 | More attractive were the hillier southern regions of Lewis and Harris where I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing . |
| 7 | At that time I lived on the flat and rather featureless coast of East Anglia , and spent most of my spare time sailing its lonely creeks and estuaries . |
| 8 | Having spent some of my limited time pouring over heavy ( in weight ) ‘ how to paint ’ library books , and investing in impulse art book buys , I find articles by I am Simpson , Robin Stemp , Jenny Webb and many others a simple joy for a struggling amateur . |
| 9 | ‘ I refuse to waste any more of my precious time in here ! ’ |
| 10 | Because we needed food , more and more of my free time was taken up by teaching , even at weekends . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm damned if I 'm going to spend hours of my valuable time meeting every plane that lands . |
| 12 | I was giving up a great deal of my own time , I may say , just to supplement the inadequate teaching he got at Burleigh . |
| 13 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 14 | The reflection implied that this tract of wild land might have come from my own time , the epicentre of the disturbance , and so might be instrumental in restoring me to my own day ! |
| 15 | so he said I said I do n't have to tell you where I were last night David , I were out , so I said even if I were in it 's none of your concern I said what I do in my private time is up to me , he said well why was n't you there ? |
| 16 | As Derek Brown of Birchfield , who at 13 years old and speculating on a career in athletics , spending two evenings and a Sunday morning training , said : ‘ I do n't let it bother my school work 'cause I can get it all done in my other time , but this [ athletics ] is what I 'd really like to do ; I keep setting myself goals every year to get to the top . ’ |
| 17 | In the middle of the negotiations with the Iranians in October 1986 , North mentioned , laughing , that he had managed to talk to the Kuwaiti foreign minister about matters of mutual concern ‘ in my spare time between blowing up Nicaragua ’ . |
| 18 | It helped when I used to do a bit of coal-bag carrying in my spare time to earn some pin money . |
| 19 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 20 | In my spare time I saw a lot of John Keay , an Agriculture graduate of the U. of Saskatchewan and a good friend , as well as Jerry Harwood and Quincey Moffat with whom I was closely associated in organizing the annual Boys ' Parliament elections . |
| 21 | What do I do in my spare time ? |
| 22 | ‘ I had always had private clients in my spare time and they were gathering momentum , ’ she says . |
| 23 | It was a pleasure to be paid for what I had up until then been doing in my spare time . |
| 24 | In my spare time and during vacations , between 1976 and 1978 , I set up what later came to be called the Standing Conference of Asian Youth Organizations . |
| 25 | I was already working as Derek 's apprentice carpet-fitter in my spare time — when I had any — but the wage I was getting was going not only on the birds ' upkeep but also on mine . |
| 26 | Work which can earn me money in my spare time . |
| 27 | In my spare time I was taking boat parties out from Mid Yell , and I ‘ used ’ that animal all summer , rarely failing to find it . |
| 28 | I 'm quite an artistic person ; in retrospect , I think perhaps I should have risen to the challenge and maybe applied to do a language , because I really enjoy literature and languages in my spare time . |
| 29 | ‘ I come here in my spare time . ’ |
| 30 | Being something of a closet linguist , I was teaching myself some Arabic in my spare time . |