Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The time I have available to practise is my sacred time and I make sure that I accomplish everything I set out to do .
2 ‘ I had always had private clients in my spare time and they were gathering momentum , ’ she says .
3 ‘ I 'll see to Nogai in my own time and I advise you not to interfere . ’
4 Evenings are their weakest time since they soon begin to feel fatigued and want to go to sleep relatively early .
5 If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar .
6 Her partners agreed to this unorthodox therapy on condition that it was done in her spare time and she produced an audit after a year .
7 Now she and Philip create designer jewellery in their spare time that they sell through galleries and museums in Britain and America .
8 Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain .
9 Business is tough at the moment , but he loves this time of year , lambing is his favourite time and he 's a really good shepherd .
10 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 .
11 We were given a lot of work to prepare in our spare time and I remember trying to keep warm in the daytime in an overcoat and scarf while I wrote an essay or struggled with Latin composition .
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