Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the time with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train make–up is typical of the time with air–conditioned Mk2 stock supported by Mk1 braking coaches . |
| 2 | He suffers much of the time with sore feet ( furunculosis ) which unfortunately makes him lame . |
| 3 | Evan spends much of the time with his eyes clamped shut , rocking gently and scraping notes out of his sore , croaking throat . |
| 4 | From Ajaccio they travelled by bus to Porto Vecchio , Minton sleeping much of the time with his mouth open and head lolling against Ross 's shoulder . |
| 5 | Just as it was difficult to be alone so much of the time with such an attractive young woman , despite the size of the ship and our separate cabins . |
| 6 | I was ill at the time with the ague but I remember the verdict being recorded . |
| 7 | ‘ It is lovely in one respect , but by crikey you are on the edge all of the time with him . |
| 8 | I must say that street , er they were a little busy at the time with Newbury and Christchurch and who can blame but them that they were very successful . |
| 9 | He had spent a while in the toilet , most of the time with his ear to the stethoscope-like instrument he 'd pressed against the closed door . |
| 10 | And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again . |
| 11 | Most of the time with this car it simply is n't important : in town and at up to 50mph , performance is sufficient , not least because it is so responsive , so effortless . |
| 12 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 13 | As well as the horror stories of the tsarist penal system and the Stalinist GULag , there are also examples of those exiles who managed to lead a relatively comfortable , if spartan , existence , taking regular exercise , hunting for sport , reading , writing and corresponding fairly freely with fellow exiles , enjoying connubial pleasures and composing theoretical treatises — one thinks particularly of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov/Lenin who spent three reasonably fruitful and unexacting years , most of the time with his wife , Nadezhda Krupskaya , living as a political exile in the home of a rich peasant in the village of Shushenskoe in southern Siberia ( 1897–1900 ) . |
| 14 | Roles works most of the time with one of his two Hasselblads , which he finds a good compromise between quality and portability ; these and a range of lenses comprise his field equipment . |
| 15 | I had a vague impression of their father but he had spent most of the time with his head in his hands . |
| 16 | Jacqui was likely to stay in most of the time with her portable television ; her pregnancy made her quite content to do so . |
| 17 | ‘ I never think about Kev 's age and most of the time with his vast experience he 's one step ahead of the strikers we face . |
| 18 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |