Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [prep] his time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some personal needs will be more important than others and an individual will be prepared to sacrifice some of his objectives for his own greater benefit ( eg. an individual may be prepared to sacrifice some of his time in order to do a job which earns extra money ) . |
| 2 | Although the new ballet had occupied much of his time and energy , other aspects of life continued . |
| 3 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes ( 1803–49 ) had an obsession with death , and devoted much of his time to polishing his dramatic poem , Death 's Jest-Book , which was published after his death . |
| 4 | Even Isaac Newton ( 1642–1727 ) , although not directly influenced by Joachim , devoted much of his time to the correlation of prophecy , history , and the end of the world . |
| 5 | Haig was made an earl in 1919 and after the war devoted much of his time to organizing the British Legion and to work on behalf of disabled ex-servicemen . |
| 6 | After he took up art collecting as a hobby in the late 1870s , Mr Johnson devoted much of his time and fortune amassing one of the country 's finest collections of European Old Master and late nineteenth-century paintings . |
| 7 | At Woolwich Dobbie joined a group of the Plymouth Brethren and devoted much of his time to Sunday school and soldiers ' welfare work . |
| 8 | Outraged Doisneau fans were mortified to find out that Doisneau himself had taken the pictures , fulfilling one of the commercial assignments which still occupy much of his time . |
| 9 | Nurturing this side of the business — with dramatic success — has occupied most of his time for the past 10 years . |
| 10 | He is alive and well , devoting much of his time to encouraging and supporting other AIDS sufferers in their quest for life . |
| 11 | He continued to work until a few years ago and from then on passed much of his time in London . |
| 12 | Poetry still continued to claim much of his time , and several pieces were penned or started such as ‘ Snow Is Falling ’ , written to the music of Ray Charles , Edith Piaf and Nina Simone , among others . |
| 13 | The title of this chapter comes from a song in Oliver Goldsmith 's play She Stoops to Conquer , sung by Tony Lumpkin , a character who misspends much of his time in a tavern called ‘ The Three Pigeons ’ : |
| 14 | And of such professors , how many would rest content with the conclusion that Pound reached in 1918 : ‘ A critic must spend some of his time asking questions — which perhaps no one can answer . |
| 15 | Instead , he 'd spend much of his time penning captions and headlines . |
| 16 | In a typical week , the field man will spend much of his time in routine inspection and monitoring by sampling river water , industrial and farm discharges and occasionally groundwater supplies . |
| 17 | Not only will the Yorkshireman spend much of his time getting to know his charges , he also expects to play the odd game or two and his experience should prove invaluable . |
| 18 | if it is considered that the information content is of paramount importance then it is valid to so construct a resource centre that every student may spend most of his time wired up to a dial-access system so that all he need do is dial a number , press a button and then sit passively absorbing what he sees on a screen and hears in his headphones … |
| 19 | Franklin always resented the Department being saddled with so much debt at a time of falling revenue , but the Coronations dominated most of his time as Manager . |
| 20 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 21 | Apart from the fact that he moved among many of the leading artists of the day such as John Landseer father of Sir Edwin Landseer , Robert Hills ( 1769–1844 ) one of the founders of the Society of Painters in Water colours , and John Glover ( 1769–1844 ) , we know little of his time there . |
| 22 | Christensen , a 37 year old Danish man , spent some of his time in his uncle 's flat in Southam Road in Banbury . |
| 23 | Angry at being separated from Jeanne , Modigliani spent much of his time drinking in a windowless little bar where local artists met , where he drank and ran up debts . |
| 24 | He spent much of his time reading and studying with a view to producing a firm and concise version of his political ideas . |
| 25 | Lefevre spent much of his time standing about in the street outside the theatre to no avail , whilst Thiercelin wasted a day and a half following up a couple of false trails supplied by articles in the local newssheet . |
| 26 | The biographer of Edward the Confessor shows us ( in what is meant to be a panegyric ) the picture of a thoroughly idle king , who spent much of his time ‘ in the glades and woods in the pleasures of hunting ’ . |
| 27 | The Prince of Wales , he claimed , wanted money to support his horse racing ; the Duke of York to pay his bets and preserve his credit at Mucklow 's Tennis Court where he spent much of his time and lost a great deal of money estimated at £200,000 . |
| 28 | To this end , he spent much of his time personally constructing dams and pipelines . |
| 29 | Marley spent much of his time away from Jamaica after being shot by raiders , and as a consequence his popularity dipped there to the benefit of Big Youth and Jacob Miller . |
| 30 | His normal raggedness became positively disreputable and he spent much of his time sulking inside the McLaren motor-home : the joy had gone out of his life . |