Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | WORLD Formula One champion Nigel Mansell will start from the third row of the grid for the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday after his qualifying time of 220.255 mph proved eighth fastest . |
| 2 | It was after this critique of Lawrence 's attitude to the modern industrial civilization and the savage world , joined to his own prophetic Christian stance towards his own time , that Eliot returned to London and the writing of The Rock . |
| 3 | Part of his spare time was taken up with the marching band of the university , but much of it was given to boisterous evenings drinking and singing with his companion — always with a view to winning the girls ' eyes and hearts . |
| 4 | Between 1949 and 1954 much of his spare time had been given to poetic scribbling ; and he was also giving voice to a measure of vacillation and disillusionment , which we shall encounter in his poetry from time to time . |
| 5 | Howard : Howard is a keen walker , spending much of his spare time climbing in the hills and tramping through mud and running streams . |
| 6 | He spends as much of his spare time as possible with his family , and enjoys caravanning and home wine-making . |
| 7 | Kurt Weinburg , evacuated to Cornwall with his school , was active in the Boy Scouts , spending much of his spare time on salvage collections . |
| 8 | He spent most of his spare time up at Skiplam , where the girl he courted was the only child of a wealthy farmer . |
| 9 | Piper has finished sparring and when he 's not out running he spends most of his spare time with his birds . |
| 10 | He has now finished sparring for the big fight and when he 's not out running he spends most of his spare time with his birds . |
| 11 | Tom would n't talk about it and spent most of his spare time at his club . |
| 12 | He had spent much of his spare time working on a theory for the formation of atmospheric depressions and decided to devote all his time to it ; he resigned from the Meteorological Office to become a graduate student at Imperial College . |
| 13 | He seems to spend most of his spare time keeping an eye on your house . ’ |
| 14 | Together with his wife Lilian , the Group quality circle facilitator spends hours of his spare time counting cross-stitching . |
| 15 | For many years his studies had absorbed every moment of his spare time , now they would be his full-time occupation . |
| 16 | Neighbours spoke of a quiet man who spent most of his spare time working for charity . |
| 17 | ‘ Barry languishes in the bucket , bereft of his awesome time travelling powers . |
| 18 | That is the view of Northern Ireland Economy Minister Robert Atkins who has spoken out for the first time about Mrs Major , wife of his long time friend , the Prime Minister . |
| 19 | The import ant fact about Baudelaire is that he was essentially a Christian , born out of his due time , and a classicist , born out of his due time … his tendency to ‘ ritual ’ … springs from no attachment to the outward forms of Christianity , but from the instincts of a soul that was naturaliter Christian . |
| 20 | The import ant fact about Baudelaire is that he was essentially a Christian , born out of his due time , and a classicist , born out of his due time … his tendency to ‘ ritual ’ … springs from no attachment to the outward forms of Christianity , but from the instincts of a soul that was naturaliter Christian . |
| 21 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |
| 22 | For the remainder of his free time , he had an established circle of good friends , whom he saw regularly . |
| 23 | Dean proved to be generally rude and disruptive to his fellow actors , and spent much of his free time in his dressing room , refusing to speak to anyone unless it directly concerned the film . |
| 24 | He spent most of his free time working for the Overseas Workers ' Union , a clandestine anti-colonial organisation chiefly recruited from Indians and Chinese . |
| 25 | But he spends most of his free time jumping off mountains paragliding . |
| 26 | Of his short time as joint professor at the Veterinary College , no certain information has survived . |
| 27 | DAVIE GIBSON ( GS Modena ) sets out in defence of his Scottish Time Trial League title in Gala CC 's Tour of the Valleys on Sunday . |
| 28 | However , since some information about his project seems to have leaked out , Dr. Briant has kindly consented to give some of his valuable time to an explanation of the work he is doing . ’ |
| 29 | ' . Doubtless , the relevance of these remarks to Eliot 's view of his own time attracted him to them . |
| 30 | Gutenberg tried to mimic the gothic calligraphy of his own time when he invented modern printing , because anything else would have been hard to read . |