Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] his time " in BNC.

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1 John already had considerable experience on big piston and tailwheel aircraft during his time flying Spitfires and Hurricanes with the BBMF .
2 Although one lists other interests in his life like Bolton Wanderers Football Club — frankly he devoted 99% of his time to his work .
3 Mm , no , well there is n't much hope for those that rejected Jesus in his time
4 So Sir Rufus was not exactly being pauperized by spending part of his time as coroner for the City of London .
5 Theologically trained readers of his time would recognise a background of scholarly debate on whether it is primarily through man 's intellect or capacity to love , that the soul engages with God , and they would be able to acknowledge Hilton 's synthesis of understanding and desire .
6 Yet he had to spend hours of his time learning Greek iambic verse as a punishment for being rude to a master in a political debate .
7 He may be completely landless , or it may be that his plot is n't big enough and he has to spend part of his time , or part of his family has to spend part of their time , working for somebody else to get in some extra money or possibly renting land from somebody else .
8 He likes to be much more involved and that is why he spends hours of his time organising cricket and soccer for the kids around Northallerton .
9 But Kemp has no space for theory , nor inclination to show Wells in his time , one among other writers .
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