Example sentences of "[noun sg] [det] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 He worked for Bonanza some of the time , but mostly you 'd find him lounging around the green tables .
2 On the other hand , Jim Smith , ex-manager of Birmingham City Football Club , believes that black players make only limited use of intellectual abilities when playing soccer : ‘ They seem to use very little intelligence ; they get by on sheer natural talent most of the time . ’
3 Alix spent three months working as an au pair girl — working very hard , for no pay — in a suburb of Paris , bored out of her mind most of the time , but strangely , surprisingly consoled by the youngest member of the large family , a baby , which , unlike its larger siblings , seemed to like her .
4 Such ensembles were not merely gathered together for the occasional ballet ; there were , in fact , three standing oboe bands at court , or , more accurately , three ensembles whose members played the oboe much of the time .
5 They were careful to keep the bull in the same field much of the time but sometimes they would have to move him and occasionally he would get out , so one always had to be wary .
6 Those on a budget will choose self catering or take-away some of the time , or when eating out will stick to more economic and filling pizza and pasta dishes , or the rosticceria selling tasty spit roast chickens .
7 Indeed , it is difficult to see how knowledge would advance if people did not get on with ‘ normal ’ work much of the time .
8 But that applies to every electron all of the time — and to everything else as well , from quarks to quasars !
9 For unattached men , it 's probably more of an issue more of the time .
10 He explained that Anne needed support too and that if he wanted to stay at home most of the time , then he must consider her welfare and go to the centre sometimes as well .
11 His father , being a geologist , was away from home most of the time , so that Hank could , to a degree , .
12 There would be every justification for her to stay at home most of the time and only emerge on joint engagements with her husband .
13 In my day girls stayed at home most of the time .
14 His wife , Aunt Ann , was kept heavy with child most of the time , but she lost most of them and they only had the four .
15 That 's accepted as a fair exchange most of the time .
16 I ca n't bear to look at myself in a mirror : I know I look a mess most of the time .
17 Then she could actually see what was going on in the family , which was that her mother was servicing her father , who just looked out of the window most of the time , psychically speaking , while the siblings got on with their rivalry .
18 ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’
19 He thought she was rather a strange girl ; more like a boy most of the time , but there were parts about her he really liked .
20 In fact she did n't demand anything , apart from a dressing-room on the ground floor because she was having great difficulty with her back at the time , and being in pain , was using a wheelchair most of the time .
21 it means that er they 're in a wheelchair most of the time , but they 're , for the , for the activity they 're , they 're standing
22 I am self employed and rely heavily on the telephone , I think BT and their engineers do a marvellous job most of the time .
23 Industrial society has managed to bake bigger and richer cakes for most of the past two centuries , suffering the occasional bouts of indigestion , but getting fatter most of the time .
24 And as I 'm in the shop most of the time and know what goes and what does n't , I think you should stick by what I say or get somebody else in who 'll do it better . ’
25 ‘ Duw , girl , what do you expect me to do when you 're in the shop most of the time ?
26 One of my cats , unassuming and docile by nature most of the time , turns into a wild tiger if I have to hold her still to give her medicine .
27 " Well , we were on the move most of the time . "
28 The base which observes a low profile most of the time , was in the news when the Queen visited in 1978 , it also was central to the Gulf War effort with the stores working overtime to meet demand .
29 We sang ( in canon most of the time ) learnt new dances and a little German , we wined and dined and held a most memorable party on the Friday evening .
30 One problem of the past year has been the length of time it has taken me to accept that I need to work in the bookshop most of the time even though I know this work has to be done and though I enjoy it ( most of the time ) .
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