Example sentences of "[verb] in his [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These projects were done in his spare time . |
| 4 | Some of his best work , on glaciation and on Old Red Sandstone , was done in his spare time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The slave wars are not to be separated , in Posidonius ' mind , from the civil wars he had seen in his own time . |
| 7 | Many thanks go to all those who have kept him going in his spare time with their contributions of spare yarn . |
| 8 | What other libraries , museums and centres may help me ? reminding us that the maturer student will wish to venture further and work in his own time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Stitch in his spare time |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What Ben did in his own time was up to him , but in the morning classes he was to do as Peng Yu-wei instructed ; learn what Peng Yu-wei asked him to learn . |
| 16 | Posidonius took the Roman victory for granted and analysed the series of crises through which the Roman state had passed in his own time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Quite sharp enough to know all about dodging income tax on the odd jobs he does in his spare time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But as a consequence , he will now face the sort of brutal attention reserved for the most lauded players in Serie A — the sort of stern treatment Lineker himself encountered and overcame in his successful time in Spain with Barcelona . |