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 . |