Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] ['s] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it 's open seven days a week , the restaurant claims much of Sally 's time , but whenever she has a chance , she goes riding with her daughters , Jemma-Jane , now ten , and Abigail , 12 , around the leafy Cotswold lanes . |
| 2 | From about 1864 on , much of Marx 's time and energy was spent in connection with the setting up of the international association of working men , the first International . |
| 3 | Henry died twelve days later , and much of Eliot 's time during the two months he stayed in the United States was spent in winding up his affairs . |
| 4 | It is her garden that now absorbs much of C.Z. 's time and it was a logical step for Bowles and photographer Pamela Hanson to use it as a setting for their fashion story ( p 162 ) , highlighting some of the key ideas for the season . |
| 5 | Obviously there is a very delicate balance between erm demanding too much of people 's time in consulting and talking with you , and not involving them at all , and you have to be very sensitive to how much time people are prepared to give and how much they want to be involved in something . |
| 6 | At length Mrs Goreng terminated proceedings by saying , ‘ Well , we have taken up too much of Monsignor 's time already . ’ |
| 7 | They have explained that the exemption might have seemed appropriate in Hale 's time but is incompatible with the status of married women today . |
| 8 | Almost all of Bailey 's time now is spent with commercials , and he wants to move into feature films . |
| 9 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 10 | The blending of wines was not an uncommon practice prior to Pérignon 's time , either in Champagne or elsewhere , but it was Dom Pérignon 's innate ability to construct a final cuvée , far exceeding in quality any previous blends , which led to his esteemed reputation in his own lifetime , creating a unique demand for the vins de Pérignon . |
| 11 | Yet even more of parliament 's time was occupied dispensing justice in response to petitions from the king 's subjects on all manner of grievances . |
| 12 | The school will want more of parents ' time , attention and money . |
| 13 | He wanted more of DeFries ' time as well and the more DeFries saw things going on that he did n't like , the less time he wanted to put in to both of them . |
| 14 | Getting rid of that backlog is the Holy Grail of programming ; not surprisingly , New World is occupying more of Softwright 's time . |
| 15 | Gradually his scientific interests took less of Dresser 's time . |
| 16 | He was of noble Norman birth , had studied at the school of Liège , and had been a clerk of William I in Lanfranc 's time . |
| 17 | The judges have been willing to concede little more than that separation agreements , divorce and certain other matrimonial orders which were not available in Hale 's time must have some effect upon the exemption . |
| 18 | The three-bedroomed cottage was certainly rare in Dorothea 's time , but by the close of Queen Victoria 's reign the majority of those new-built were of this type . |
| 19 | What was so special about Johnny 's time , anyway ? |
| 20 | Most of Gould 's time on this first brief visit to Yarrundi was spent in pursuit of one particular bird — the Menura or lyre-bird that abounded in the cedar brush on the slopes of the Liverpool Range . |
| 21 | Nowadays , it 's the Pet Care Helpline which takes up most of Christine 's time and she has no plans of stopping . |
| 22 | Most of Leapor 's time at Weston Hall and Edgcote House would obviously have been spent working . |
| 23 | During most of Charman 's time with the group , the bond between them had been very strong . |
| 24 | True in Macbeth 's time and true today . |
| 25 | Echolocation in bats , although unknown in Paley 's time , would have served his purpose just as well as any of his examples . |