Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Prince spent his time in the cabin playing cards with the Prince Fahid . ’ |
| 2 | The CO took his time as if savouring a titbit of information certain to delight its recipient , ‘ As you know , camp breaks up in a day or two . ’ |
| 3 | In practice , an employer will not always rely on the implied duty of fidelity : there will often be an express clause in the employment contract which directs the employee to devote his time exclusively to the promotion of the employer 's business . |
| 4 | However , there is no doubt that many express terms which bind the employee to devote his time to his employment and to devote his energies to furthering his employer 's business contemplate control over his skill and knowledge . |
| 5 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 6 | The other girls in the compartment spent their time comparing their passport photographs , and commenting upon the rowdiness of some boys in the corridor , who seemed , to their disbelieving , priggish admiring indignation , to be drinking beer out of cans , but Clara , though she saw , was too rapt to speak . |
| 7 | The goods-train took its time . |
| 8 | Caulker had been deeply concerned ( and I am convinced rightly so ) that the conference concentrated its time and discussion on the provision of sophisticated and expensive technology for developing countries , ignoring the need to lay foundations in schools for fundamental growth of knowledge , skills and attitudes to understand them . |
| 9 | Politics in Credit Management ( ‘ politics ’ with a small p ) is the theme of this year 's conference — external politics such as the implications of the proposals for economic and monetary union , and internal politics , the need to manage your time effectively , avoid stress and improve the status of the credit function . |
| 10 | Having reached this agreement , he allowed the king to take his time , and he did not even insist on returning to England , but renamed at Bec until a settlement had been reached . |
| 11 | The wife spent her time running one of the hotels , while the husband and his brothers devoted their skills to property speculation with considerable success . |
| 12 | There is a temptation on both sides for the pupil to spend his time doing this , but it soon becomes rather profitless . |
| 13 | You can get up at six o'clock in the morning see what time it is ca n't you ? |
| 14 | Right if you have n't if you ca n't find the dictionary you could look in the paper see what time Neighbours is on . |
| 15 | Herr Nordern told him , barking savagely at an innocent Paul who poked his head around the door to ask what time they wanted lunch . |
| 16 | Servants hurried in and out of kitchens with pitchers of water while others sat in the shade whiling their time away with dice and other games of hazard . |
| 17 | No satisfactory answer to this problem was forthcoming meantime , but at least the situation gave them time for the main Scots foot army to come up . |
| 18 | Relaxing music is played at the beginning of the float and again at the end to indicate your time is up . |
| 19 | The Profitboss devotes his time and energy to the customer relationship , not the wine . |
| 20 | The Profitboss sees his time and energy as a primary investment source . |
| 21 | This familiarization is important to the salesman who operates away from home base for most of the year maximising his time on the road . |
| 22 | Unlike Princess Julie , the rest of the family spent their time in repeating malicious gossip about Eugénie 's past life , hinting that she had a more than dubious reputation , but their attitude in no way influenced the Emperor , except perhaps in a contrary sense . |
| 23 | Although the procedure relies on a final visual check it excludes up to 85 per cent of the possibilities , allowing the designer to use his time effectively and so optimizing the solution . |
| 24 | All swimmers will receive a certificate recording their time and individual participants completing the distance will also get a medal . |
| 25 | Money was short in the party by 1921 because there had been no proper revival since the war ; members were constantly described as apathetic , and were in no mood to give their time or their money to a party that did not know where it was going . |
| 26 | ‘ Generally ’ , said Khardzhiev , in final judgement , ‘ there 's no need to spend your time on these artists . |
| 27 | Quite often , the police ask for a remand to give them time to make further enquiries , assemble their evidence and so on . |
| 28 | A time-budget diary completed by one of the policewomen for a week shows her time divided between welfare duties ( including visits to the homes of victims and children in care , and attending children 's parties ) , serving summonses on offenders and witnesses , paperwork and case files , liaison with other badies ( such as the social services , concerning children who are missing or on the special-risk list , and the RUC 's Community Relations Branch ) , and enquiries and interviews regarding offences . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll have no trouble filling my time . |
| 30 | He is still talking in terms of a new career , rather than retiring , and this is not surprising in view of the work ethic , which tells us that the only ‘ proper ’ way for a man to spend his time is in productive employment and makes it very difficult for men to take up interests purely for the enjoyment . |