Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Each creature has evolved to operate most efficiently during a particular part of the sun 's cycle , and some are now locked into their chosen time slot . |
| 32 | Stitch in his spare time |
| 33 | He replied that it was because in his youth there was little to do in their spare time except read and study . |
| 34 | Barbara Andrews of Rhyl said her son Mark and his friends were desperate for letters as there was so little for them to do in their spare time . |
| 35 | What she chose to do in her spare time was absolutely no business of his . |
| 36 | From then on the film is a partially credible but increasingly fantastic documentation of the relationship between the two which develops as she teaches him to read during her spare time . |
| 37 | It was a pleasure to be paid for what I had up until then been doing in my spare time . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | On that particular day many children , who were sitting examinations , would not be travelling at their normal time which is the peak time for traffic on the road . |
| 40 | ‘ Survived by his long time companion … |
| 41 | The real reason for the compulsory exercise , some students believed , was to further intrude into their free time in an already highly regimented day . |
| 42 | ‘ Where I go in my free time is none of your business , you interfering old cow . ’ |
| 43 | And because he was only in lodgings , he felt in his spare time that he would come with us if we were visiting lodging houses or something . |
| 44 | The last time we met he had just bought a new boat , having taken up sailing in his spare time ( but he has n't much of that ) . |
| 45 | But when their parent can no longer be left alone and they decide , as many of them do , to leave work in order to care for her full time , their major problems begin . |
| 46 | I do n't know what he did with his spare time , although I suspect from his conversation that a lot of it was spent in pubs . ’ |
| 47 | Williams began studying in his spare time in 1897 and taught himself Latin and Greek , enrolling in a correspondence course at Ruskin Hall , Oxford , in 1900 . |
| 48 | These have moved away from a concern with what young people did in their spare time and the transition from school to work towards looking at unemployment and state policies . |
| 49 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 50 | Well I mean it 's often things that people do in their spare time the , the record keeping is n't perfect and , and |
| 51 | What you do in your spare time is very important . |
| 52 | ‘ What you do in your spare time , Wilson , ’ he said , ‘ is absolutely your affair . |
| 53 | so he said I said I do n't have to tell you where I were last night David , I were out , so I said even if I were in it 's none of your concern I said what I do in my private time is up to me , he said well why was n't you there ? |
| 54 | It helped when I used to do a bit of coal-bag carrying in my spare time to earn some pin money . |
| 55 | I sat on the remains of a Greek column , obviously left from its Byronic time . |
| 56 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 57 | Physical activity and natural light Light exercise and brisk walks taken at your accustomed time by the new local time will help to adjust you to the new time zone and to make you feel ready for sleep at bedtime . |
| 58 | Former Major of paratroops , now seconded to MVD , Vasily Kypov had in his short time at ZhKh 38S/3/I received two commendations from the Ministry for the smooth running of the Zone . |
| 59 | Quite sharp enough to know all about dodging income tax on the odd jobs he does in his spare time . |
| 60 | Traditionally an Englishman is as much what he does in his free time as in his hours of work , and both Who 's who and the obituary columns honour this fact . |