Example sentences of "[pron] in [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time .
2 All of which adds up to an absorbing daily life and one in which any time that she spends on her own , when she often dwells on her sad past , is kept to a minimum .
3 But I used to do work for customer down the garage there he used to have two cars to hire and I drove one in my spare time .
4 She had reached the landing by this stage of her deliberations , remarking , as she did so , that the fitted carpet , which had covered them in her own time , had gone .
5 The boarding-school had a few pets and we were allowed to look after them in our free time .
6 The solution was to let her initiate everything , to allow her to come towards him in her own time .
7 ‘ I 'll deal with him in my own time .
8 ‘ Maybe there will be someone to fill Lineker 's shoes in years to come but at the moment the replacements must be given a chance to do it in their own time . ’
9 But they can settle it in their own time . ’
10 A county council has told its entire staff that they can no longer smoke in their offices , and if they want a cigarette they must have it in their own time .
11 The ban itself is n't unusual but the County Council has also ruled that anyone taking a break for a cigarette must do it in their own time .
12 The Director of Information in the colonial administration , Harry Franklin , started the Lusaka station in 1941 and ran it in his spare time .
13 Jolitz reportedly mortgaged his house to start the initial 386BSD project and subsequently finished it in his own time .
14 As a keen walker and lover of the countryside Hardy would surely approve of how West Dorset has been preserved to be enjoyed by people today as he enjoyed it in his own time .
15 A person employed as an accountant who writes a computer program to help with the production of financial accounts will own the copyright in that program if he wrote it in his own time , using his own equipment .
16 ( Two of us ) have just simply had to find time to do it in our own time .
17 ‘ If you want to write anything for anyone else again , ’ he said roughly , ‘ do it in your own time , not in mine . ’
18 This is a copy of the letter they sent , if you 'd like to look at it in your own time and tell whether the information in it is correct .
19 Er , and you can spend some time looking at it in your own time , I E , going at your own pace , over the problems .
20 Smokers told , do it in your OWN time .
21 But let me do it in my own time , and do n't make me feel like a brood mare .
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