Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In his spare time he became more and more interested in amateur dramatics , as well as teaching himself to play the violin . |
| 32 | Chance was a businessman rather than a biologist , but in his spare time he collected birds ' eggs , particularly those of the cuckoo and its hosts . |
| 33 | In his spare time he sang in one of the most famous of London 's amateur choirs . |
| 34 | In his spare time he works as a reclamation engineer . |
| 35 | In his spare time he sang in a male voice choir . |
| 36 | He was mainly self-taught as a geologist , and in his spare time he began an amateur interest in geological mapping . |
| 37 | In his spare time he sold copies of The Clarion , a socialist newspaper , on street corners . |
| 38 | In his spare time he is an Assistant Secretary to the well known Premier League team , Hamilton Accies , for whom he writes the programme . |
| 39 | Pilot David Moore from Gloucestershire was at the controls of the forty seven year old Spitfire as it took part in an air display near Manchester on Saturday.The fighter plane looped the loop but as it neared the ground it plummeted down , bursting into flames.Firefighters were on the scene immediately , and confirmed that the pilot was dead.David Moore , who was 47 , flew with the Royal Navy for ten years before joining Rolls Royce as a pilot in the mid 1970s.He flew the company 's executives around Europe … but in his spare time he enjoyed piloting vintage planes like the Spitfire , which was owned by Rolls Royce.Today at the family 's home near Stroud , David Moore 's widow was coming to terms with the tragedy : |
| 40 | In his spare time he painted with Cleveland Art Society and took his paints with him whenever his family went on holiday . |
| 41 | In his free time he was happy to watch cartoons and videos on TV or wander around the various royal apartments , chatting to kitchen staff or watching Diana perform her ballet exercises at Kensington Palace . |
| 42 | In his own time he had been a maverick , and for being a maverick his grateful sovereign had pinned on his chest the gallantry medal of the Military Cross . |
| 43 | You kept phoning back for it , oh I 've lost it , it 's gone through the system , tell you what scrub round it next time you 're around I 'll I 'll go into the booklet . |
| 44 | In our own time it has been only fascists , racists and their ilk who ha–e felt the urge to slaughter vast numbers of people whom they have regarded as different from themselves . |
| 45 | Meanwhile , in your spare time you can write out recipes for a new-angle celebrity cookbook , some of the proceeds of which go to a cause so worthy it makes your eyelids retract . |
| 46 | Erm if you like , you filled in all those boxes in your spare time you come up with a whole list of these follies of human beings . |
| 47 | If on my time you prepare that waste wood into bundles such as any man could store at home , and if in your own time you will carry those bundles around the town and distribute them free , to rich and poor alike — but not to any man who was landlord to any among us — we may together teach them — ’ The rest of his words were drowned in a universal roar of delight . |
| 48 | Might find a job for him some time you see . |
| 49 | In fact , now that I come to think of it , I have a feeling it may have been Lord Darlington himself who made that particular remark to me that time he called me into his study some two months after that exchange with Miss Kenton outside the billiard room . |
| 50 | ‘ She would n't speak to me last time I was in your home , ’ she complained . |
| 51 | ‘ Six years , and then burning up this last week I 've spent in Singapore , regretting the entrenched prejudices that stopped me making love to you last time we were together . |
| 52 | She said : ‘ You will talk to him next time he telephones , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 53 | ‘ Now I open tonight 's reading from the master 's great Oliver Twist , the famous scene chosen by Dickens for his own readings and which led to his early death , from the violent emotion that swept over him each time he read this passage . ’ |
| 54 | Just toss one of those at me any time I snore and I 'll turn on my side and shut up . |
| 55 | All the reels retail at £49.95 : have a look at them next time you 're in a tackle shop — if there 's not one to suit , you 'll never be satisfied . |
| 56 | At trick two you cash the Ace of Diamonds and thereafter the defence can not dare to lead Diamonds and must always lead another suit at you any time they are on lead . |
| 57 | If he 'd got a down on you , he could get back at you any time he wanted . ’ |