Example sentences of "[noun] in his [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaun , aged 25 , an instructor at the club in his spare time , teaches children as young as six in the art of self defence . |
| 2 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 3 | Champion let Aldaniti take the last fence in his own time and then set off up the run-in which the jockey later described as ‘ the loneliest place in the world ’ . |
| 4 | As Brightman J said in United Sterling Corp Ltd v Felton and Mannion [ 1974 ] RPC 162 " This contractual obligation of fidelity … may prevent a skilled employee from giving his assistance to a competitor despite the fact that such assistance is provided by the employee in his own time and despite the fact that no information has been disclosed to the employees in confidence " . |
| 5 | When he lived in Falmouth , Brand was an art teacher , but he gave lectures on astrology and cast horoscopes in his spare time . |
| 6 | In those days there seemed so many vistas ahead that I did not mind when I began to go public : it was sufficiently gratifying to feel that Eliot wanted to print some of my work in his good time and in mine . |
| 7 | Does the person have to correct unsatisfactory work in his own time and at his own expense ? |
| 8 | Graham Gooch , touring the world as a triumphant cricketing skipper , cashed in on his fame with highly-paid personal appearances in his spare time . |
| 9 | ‘ Even if he is a tycoon in his spare time ? ’ |
| 10 | One of those to die was a naturalist and an Admiral in the Roman Navy , Caius Plinius or Pliny the Elder , who was a much-respected man and widely-known in his own time . |
| 11 | He worked as a servant to a Brahmin but wrote plays in his spare time and believed firmly in land reform . |
| 12 | Pop singer Rod Stewart took inordinate pride in his brief time as a professional with Brentford and would make well-publicized appearances to support Scotland . |
| 13 | The 27-year-old from Crewe who farms a dairy herd in his spare time , was the name in the envelope at the last Ryder contest two years ago . |
| 14 | On the other hand the very nature of the work may be such as to make it quite clear that the duties of the employee to his employer can not properly be performed if he engages in certain activities in his spare time . |
| 15 | He should take his own route in his own time and avoid the tendency to see through others ' eyes . |
| 16 | Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him . |
| 17 | Anand , who claimed that he would not seek re-election , announced that his objectives in his allotted time in government were to increase the participation of the public and business sector in politics , to begin the demilitarization of the political process , and to disengage from commercial practices the armed forces , many of whose leaders headed major companies . |
| 18 | Darby was a cheerfully relaxed young man who compiled cryptic crosswords for a monthly magazine in his spare time . |
| 19 | Or what if the painter works for other people in his free time in return for cash ? |
| 20 | Subsequent entries on his report card show Hermann enjoying his new job delivering films to cinemas , paying off his debts and making toys in his spare time . |
| 21 | Called the Icarus Covert Insertion and Recovery Vehicle ( CIRV ) , it is the brainchild of Philip Parsons , a Flight Lieutenant with the RAF Regiment at North Luffenham and experienced hang-glider and microlight pilot who has developed the craft in his spare time . |
| 22 | Polybius never quite grasped the political organization of Italy in his own time . |
| 23 | Meanwhile Hunt was studying music in his spare time . |
| 24 | 1.2 The employee 's duty not to compete in his spare time As a general rule an employee can not compete with his employer in his spare time without being in breach of his duty of fidelity . |
| 25 | He served in the US Army Signals Corps during the latter stages of the First World War before settling in Onawa , Iowa , where he worked as a teacher and ran a sweetshop in his spare time . |
| 26 | He confessed to enjoying making spinning wheels and rocking horses in his spare time . |
| 27 | During employment the employee may damage his employer 's business in the following ways : ( a ) working for a competitor during his hours of employment ; ( b ) working for a competitor in his spare time ; ( c ) making preparations in order to compete with his employer after he has left ; ( d ) disclosing or using the employer 's business secrets ; or ( e ) failing to disclose information which may be of use to his employer and in some instances personally profiting from its use . |
| 28 | The important points which emerge from this case are that the employer will be able to rely on this part of the duty of fidelity if it can be shown that the employee works for a trade competitor in his spare time and : ( a ) knows of business secrets which may be of use to the competitor and/or ( b ) occupies a position which makes it expedient to recognise the existence of his duty to work for the employer alone . |
| 29 | The court discussed the example of a solicitor 's clerk and said that in such a case it would be improper for him to work for another solicitor in his spare time . |
| 30 | What marked Suger out from other pseudo-Dionysians was firstly , that he translated his abstractions into concepts directly relevant to French politics in his own time , and secondly that he proclaimed his views in the influential Life of Louis VI , written in the early years of Louis VII 's reign . |