Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manchester-based Mark , at No. 19 with I Found Heaven , reveals : ‘ My mum did n't want me wasting my time trying to be a pop star and I came very close to quitting the group . |
| 2 | I can appreciate Edouard would rather have me wasting my time at the museum instead of going round to his flat and trying to persuade Barbara Coleman to leave , but sending someone to kill me was rather an over-reaction . ’ |
| 3 | Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease . |
| 4 | you 're also teaching them to pass their time |
| 5 | ‘ Am I wasting my time ? ’ |
| 6 | Then I got my time and felt even better — the time was more important to me than the medal . |
| 7 | I divided my time between my hundreds of pet animals at home and the wild animals in the Wiltshire countryside . |
| 8 | I divided my time between Herbert 's and his father 's home . |
| 9 | I described our time at Canjuers , the singing and the landscapes . |
| 10 | I told , I told her time ! |
| 11 | I bided my time but patience was still not a part of my nature no matter how continually I courted it . |
| 12 | I must say that I enjoyed my time in hospital . |
| 13 | I enjoyed my time at Fontainebleau , especially wandering in the forest , hoping to see a wild boar . |
| 14 | ‘ I enjoyed my time at Omagh and was reasonably successful , but in the meantime I 'm back in training . |
| 15 | ‘ I enjoyed my time at ’ he said . |
| 16 | I know my time has come . ’ |
| 17 | Well I know me time we we we done that not so long ago . |
| 18 | Then we moved to the and then I went to Road School , which I finished my time there , fourteen . |
| 19 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 20 | I served my time in both India , Palestine , Gibraltar , Egypt and these sort of places abroad and when I , I nine months of my colour service to finish , which were a twelve year service , when war broke out in nineteen thirty nine . |
| 21 | That 's where I served my time they did n't phew |
| 22 | So perhaps , if I spent my time explaining how and why I found difficulty , that must be some sort of substitute . |
| 23 | At the Dixie Dude , I spent my time between riding in the hills and just sitting on the porch doing nothing . |
| 24 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 25 | I spent my time weeding , raking and sowing my vegetable patch . |
| 26 | Over the next two months I spent my time between staying at my boyfriend 's house at weekends and the LIFE house on weekdays . |
| 27 | I taught for a term at a crammer half a mile from my home , and instead of passing lazy days with charming children whose actively hatted mothers would smile , condescend and yet flirt during some endless pollen-spattered sports day , I spent my time with the son of the local bookmaker ( he lent me his bike : I crashed it ) and the daughter of the suburb 's solicitor . |
| 28 | My first step was to gather information on how I spent my time on school-related activities and attempt to create some form of time-analysis schedule . |
| 29 | I was not allowed to return to Bolivia , so I spent my time and energy denouncing what was happening and setting up solidarity networks . |
| 30 | Basically I do n't disagree with you , aye we have got the best army and I loved my I loved my time in the Army but I 'm totally against the way I was treated in the Army . |