Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I refuse to waste any more of my precious time in here ! ’ |
| 2 | But I think I can say I had some of my happiest times in the army . |
| 3 | Furthermore , immature females tended to spend proportionately more of their grooming time with females ranking higher than their mothers . |
| 4 | ‘ Randy 's a major collector of guitars ; he and Brian dedicate most of their spare time to tracking down old Gretsches all over the country . |
| 5 | There 's no point in sending them off on endless — no doubt excellent — courses if there 's no incentive for them to use up large slices of their spare time in teaching the game . |
| 6 | A recent survey by educationalist Zaida Cavalcanti in the North-eastern city of Recife showed that middle-class children spend two-thirds of their spare time in front of the television . |
| 7 | If they are worried about the possibility of aggression in the visit they must tell their supervisor of their expected time of return or alternatively make arrangements for telephoning the office by a specific time . |
| 8 | The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding . |
| 9 | Roderick will be sadly missed in every circle in which he moved , but most of all , of course , by Bobbie , whose devotion and fortitude was his greatest comfort in his final illness , and whose forbearance over many years enabled Roderick to spend such a great amount of their valuable time on the book . |
| 10 | Compared with most of the species mentioned so far , many figs seem to produce fruits almost all year round and are the most important foods of many specialized frugivores in Africa , Malesia and Australasia — the siamang ( Hylobates syndactylus ) in Malaya spends a quarter of its feeding time in fig trees . |
| 11 | Certainly Verbivore is characteristic of its cybernetic times in that it is more ‘ user-friendly ’ than much of Brooke-Rose 's previous work . |
| 12 | This is all the time there is for Private Members ' Bills unless , as occasionally happens , the government takes them over and allots some of its own time to them . |
| 13 | FOR 25 years Marjorie MacRae has devoted much of her spare time to the teaching of Scottish country dancing . |
| 14 | Larissa , 40 , became a teacher so that she would have more time with her children , but she spends most of her spare time in queues . |
| 15 | She gave much of her own time to helping those encountering problems with their studies through individual tuition at her home , frequently during the summer months in preparation for autumn courses . |
| 16 | It was after this that Mrs Kelsall , a midwifery sister and joint team leader , embarked on a project that was to take up most of her free time for the next two years . |
| 17 | She spends much of her free time with boyfriend Andy , 23 , who works as a forklift truck driver . |
| 18 | Then , it had added another stamp of ‘ difference ’ on a child whose father rarely appeared in the family home and who spent most of her free time in the company of paid supervisors . |
| 19 | It could be useful to remind Stuart Baxter of it some time in the future . |
| 20 | Kurt Weinburg , evacuated to Cornwall with his school , was active in the Boy Scouts , spending much of his spare time on salvage collections . |
| 21 | Tom would n't talk about it and spent most of his spare time at his club . |
| 22 | Piper has finished sparring and when he 's not out running he spends most of his spare time with his birds . |
| 23 | He has now finished sparring for the big fight and when he 's not out running he spends most of his spare time with his birds . |
| 24 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |
| 25 | Dean proved to be generally rude and disruptive to his fellow actors , and spent much of his free time in his dressing room , refusing to speak to anyone unless it directly concerned the film . |
| 26 | However , since some information about his project seems to have leaked out , Dr. Briant has kindly consented to give some of his valuable time to an explanation of the work he is doing . ’ |
| 27 | Now you 're one of a pair , it does n't mean that you have to do everything together , but the chances are that you will want to spend a lot of your spare time with each other . |
| 28 | I mean , I 'm really looking forward to I mean most of your bloody time within a year I 'm getting out you can start doing what you want then , but when you do n't have that regular period you do n't know how you 're gon na react to your own , you 've got |
| 29 | You need to organize your life if you are to make the most of your limited time at college . |
| 30 | If you find that drawing pattern sheets take up too much of your precious time for knitting there are several people who supply ‘ ready to read ’ cards . |