Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] his [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was complete with bar and barman , hot-dog simmerer , king-sized double-doored two-tone refrigerator , drugstore hotplates , big-game trophies on the walls ( the host was a big-game hunter who acted in his spare time ) , and huge , deep , low divans and easy chairs — villainously uncomfortable for men , but marvellously made for cute little women who could tuck their cute little legs away and blazingly efface their cute little pretty little pouting little personalities in niches of the vast furniture and make like cute little pussycats . |
| 2 | In a new development on Thursday the court heard a conversation between Clay and Senator secretly taped in November nineteen ninety one as part of his cooperation with Federal prosecutors , during that conversation the lobbyist Clay boasted to his one time crony that Sharon , newly appointed by Governor Pete Wilson , was our girl . |
| 3 | ‘ Survived by his long time companion … |
| 4 | Well , ladies and gentlemen , I think you 'll agree that some of John Maynard-Smith 's early engineering training showed through , as it were , in reverse order , if that 's not too heretical a statement to make in this context , in the gentle good natured demolition job that he did on the main current critical attacks on Darwin 's mechanism , and particularly on the rhythms of change that Darwin adumbrated within his own time scale . |
| 5 | And because he was only in lodgings , he felt in his spare time that he would come with us if we were visiting lodging houses or something . |
| 6 | I do n't know what he did with his spare time , although I suspect from his conversation that a lot of it was spent in pubs . ’ |
| 7 | What Ben did in his own time was up to him , but in the morning classes he was to do as Peng Yu-wei instructed ; learn what Peng Yu-wei asked him to learn . |
| 8 | Former Major of paratroops , now seconded to MVD , Vasily Kypov had in his short time at ZhKh 38S/3/I received two commendations from the Ministry for the smooth running of the Zone . |
| 9 | But as a consequence , he will now face the sort of brutal attention reserved for the most lauded players in Serie A — the sort of stern treatment Lineker himself encountered and overcame in his successful time in Spain with Barcelona . |
| 10 | He awoke at his usual time Wednesday morning , November 27 , and remained awake until 12 o'clock Saturday night . |