Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we take breaks — when I 'm at home or on vacation — my chops go down drastically because I 'm enjoying my free time and doing things I do n't usually have time to do . |
| 2 | The time I have available to practise is my sacred time and I make sure that I accomplish everything I set out to do . |
| 3 | ‘ I had always had private clients in my spare time and they were gathering momentum , ’ she says . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I love working with handicapped people ; I did similar work in Australia in my spare time and , you have to admit , it does make a pleasant change from accidents and medicals . ’ |
| 6 | Those designs are mine , done in my own time and made up by my own outworkers . |
| 7 | But that is in my own time and what I do in my own time is up to me . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll see to Nogai in my own time and I advise you not to interfere . ’ |
| 9 | It has yet to be proved to me that these men out of the dingy side-streets ever did anything better with their free time and their shillings . ’ |
| 10 | An overall activity index ( graded from 2 to 9 ) was then calculated on the basis of the patient 's activity ( graded from 1 ( light ) to 3 ( heavy ) ) at work , during their free time and , where applicable , during sporting activity . |
| 11 | They still subordinate their cash earning potential to the demands on their unpaid time and energy from their role in the family . |
| 12 | Through disengagement , elderly people are believed to transfer their remaining time and energy to matters more restful and congenial — to reflection , reminiscence and rest . |
| 13 | So the family overstayed its permitted time and then left , not for the United States but for Galway , without notifying the authorities . |
| 14 | Also examined are how these households organise their domestic time and tasks , and their attitudes to the changing patterns of work and the problems which arise . |
| 15 | Evenings are their weakest time since they soon begin to feel fatigued and want to go to sleep relatively early . |
| 16 | Of the four , Nutty saw hope for two — given twice their allocated time and decent , trained horses to ride . |
| 17 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 18 | Her partners agreed to this unorthodox therapy on condition that it was done in her spare time and she produced an audit after a year . |
| 19 | Now she and Philip create designer jewellery in their spare time that they sell through galleries and museums in Britain and America . |
| 20 | He replied that it was because in his youth there was little to do in their spare time except read and study . |
| 21 | These have moved away from a concern with what young people did in their spare time and the transition from school to work towards looking at unemployment and state policies . |
| 22 | On to the present , and whatever the political and academic motivations behind the all-embracing National Curriculum , there is no doubt that it has had one overriding effect : it has demoralised teachers , and its prescriptive nature and reliance on testing have reduced their spare time and sapped their energy . |
| 23 | The other buses were either spread out in their running time or cut down to form the evening frequency which was less than what it was during the peak time and so I , you know , I 'd , I 'd left it at then , when I went in the forces then , he carried on . |
| 24 | However , when that same individual is observed spending some of its vital time and energy budget assisting others to survive or rear their young the logic of Darwin 's theory would suppose it to be engaged in activities that would tend to lower its biological fitness . |
| 25 | This " dark figure " is unknowable , but there is a clear enough indication that organisations of a type which would later become familiar as " trade unions " but were better known to their own time as workers ' " combinations " were well established and widespread among skilled workers in the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | This directive encourages officers to research and study in their own time and lists suitable subjects , which include ‘ public administration , management studies , economics , law , criminology , social sciences , youth work , English language and literature and relevant modern languages ’ . |
| 27 | They can then absorb the literature in their own time and make up their own minds . |
| 28 | Indeed I detect a genuine and growing support for Agriculture in schools , evident from pupils and their parents , whenever leadership is given by an enthusiastic teacher , and I have met a number of these , giving freely of their own time and sometimes of their limited funds as well . |
| 29 | Fangorn agrees when he says of his own dying species , ‘ songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way , and sometimes they are withered untimely ’ . |
| 30 | So an essential skill of counselling is to avoid completely the giving of advice , and to allow counsellees to take what eventually must be their responsibility to arrive at their own decision , in their own time and in their own way . |