Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She enjoys hiking and walking in her spare time , and also looks forward to her annual skiing expedition . |
| 2 | The reflection implied that this tract of wild land might have come from my own time , the epicentre of the disturbance , and so might be instrumental in restoring me to my own day ! |
| 3 | As a student at Columbia University , New York — where he took a degree and a doctorate — and subsequently as a teacher of biochemistry at Boston University , he continued to write in his spare time . |
| 4 | The floor was crowded with cardboard boxes that were filled with leaflets for the Literacy Project that Ellen helped in her spare time . |
| 5 | She also had to work in her spare time to help pay for her studies . |
| 6 | Most of the uniforms and CID from all over the county are offering to work in their spare time . ’ |
| 7 | The programs are designed to enable students to work in their own time and at their own pace . |
| 8 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 9 | That so many disputes were reported in the range of newspapers consulted by Dobson is indicative of a much larger population , either not yet discovered by historians or not reported in their own time . |
| 10 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 11 | But er and then when television come her mother was sat over it all times and she used to tell me about going to pictures . |
| 12 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 13 | Each guest 's name and room number are recorded , plus his or her newspaper requirements , their room status and the time of their alarm call if needed ( the system automatically rings at their selected time ) . |
| 14 | Three nights she had been imprisoned here — the last one without food or water , since the guard had not come at his usual time . |
| 15 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 16 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 17 | I 'd like to talk about it some time . ’ |
| 18 | Now then what can we do for you this time ? |
| 19 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 20 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |
| 21 | With all this er trauma , did you have er Wh what did you do with your leisure time , what did you do with your free time out side of the outside the pit ? |
| 22 | I played with her several times when she was in her 70s — and she trounced me . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | All studies were done in her own time mostly working at home on correspondence courses or attending the Central College of Commerce in Glasgow . |
| 26 | As Derek Brown of Birchfield , who at 13 years old and speculating on a career in athletics , spending two evenings and a Sunday morning training , said : ‘ I do n't let it bother my school work 'cause I can get it all done in my other time , but this [ athletics ] is what I 'd really like to do ; I keep setting myself goals every year to get to the top . ’ |
| 27 | Those designs are mine , done in my own time and made up by my own outworkers . |
| 28 | Leo Lloyd was monastically devoted to his job — it is difficult for me to realise it was all done in his spare time — … he persuaded me that acting was infinitely fascinating . |
| 29 | These projects were done in his spare time . |
| 30 | Some of his best work , on glaciation and on Old Red Sandstone , was done in his spare time . |