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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The floor was crowded with cardboard boxes that were filled with leaflets for the Literacy Project that Ellen helped in her spare time . |
| 4 | She also had to work in her spare time to help pay for her studies . |
| 5 | Most of the uniforms and CID from all over the county are offering to work in their spare time . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Three nights she had been imprisoned here — the last one without food or water , since the guard had not come at his usual time . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These projects were done in his spare time . |
| 15 | Some of his best work , on glaciation and on Old Red Sandstone , was done in his spare time . |
| 16 | What do I do in my spare time ? |
| 17 | I do n't have to ask you what I should do in my spare time , and — and I suppose now you wo n't want to help me find my mother , and that 's all right with me , I do n't care ! ’ |
| 18 | What do you do in your spare time ? |
| 19 | ‘ And what do you do in your spare time ? ’ |
| 20 | So erm what do you do in your spare time ? |
| 21 | With so much to see and do in your short time in Amsterdam why not book your excursions before you travel ? |
| 22 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 23 | Virtually none of the industry 's first generation of Magnox power stations were built within their expected time or cost . |
| 24 | All this has to be done on my off-duty time , which of course is limited and irregular since I work shifts . |
| 25 | I would have thought of it given time . |
| 26 | Many thanks go to all those who have kept him going in his spare time with their contributions of spare yarn . |
| 27 | If you can do what you enjoy in your free time , you can leave your work for what you are good at . |
| 28 | Well it 's just erm ah I do n't know , I mean there 's there 's certain things I mean , it it 's like this maths I mean , I I spoke to her erm and she said yes Lee had come on and everything in his maths and I said we the thing is , I said , knowing Lee has difficulty in in th l in the high level maths , yes you do n't want to drop him , but surely I said I 'm willing to help in my spare time , Lee 's willing to do it and I said ca n't you show Lee I said I 'm not I was n't trying to tell her |
| 29 | It was complete with bar and barman , hot-dog simmerer , king-sized double-doored two-tone refrigerator , drugstore hotplates , big-game trophies on the walls ( the host was a big-game hunter who acted in his spare time ) , and huge , deep , low divans and easy chairs — villainously uncomfortable for men , but marvellously made for cute little women who could tuck their cute little legs away and blazingly efface their cute little pretty little pouting little personalities in niches of the vast furniture and make like cute little pussycats . |
| 30 | That instinctive understanding of her place in the showbusiness scheme of things was later to rub off on Kylie 's fellow Neighbours exile Jason Donovan , who was persuaded by his long time friend to abandon ideas of hardening up his dance music into something U2ish . |