Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle of the negotiations with the Iranians in October 1986 , North mentioned , laughing , that he had managed to talk to the Kuwaiti foreign minister about matters of mutual concern ‘ in my spare time between blowing up Nicaragua ’ . |
| 2 | I decided to struggle round the course , though , in my slowest time for a marathon of 3:30 ; 33 ’ , he said . |
| 3 | FORMERLY handed back to the Fenland Aviation Museum at RAF Marham on September 30 was Vampire T.11 XD434 ( see photo last month ) which had been painstakingly refurbished by members of the Victor Major Maintenance Unit ( VMMU ) who carried out the work in their spare time over a four month period after dismantling and transport from Fenland 's museum at Wisbech in May . |
| 4 | There 's the ex-taxi driver , the chicken farmer and the house decorator who are building robots in their spare time for space projects . |
| 5 | The groups did not differ in their card-sorting times on the other task . |
| 6 | These three ninth-century writers purveyed a similar message in their own times to audiences made up wholly or in part of lay nobles . |
| 7 | He reckons there are no shortages of possible uses — farmers can use it to do their accounts , women with child-care responsibilities can work in their own time on the word processors , publicity material for local craftsmen can be produced and so on . |
| 8 | Marksmanship was relatively unaffected when the soldiers were allowed to shoot in their own time at a target , but when shooting was combined with a vigilance task ( with the target appearing briefly at unpredictable times ) , the number of hits was dramatically reduced . |
| 9 | I think , in their own time at their own expense . |
| 10 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |
| 11 | One may go on saying that newer nations will develop and strengthen in the way that , say , Pakistan have in their own time in Test cricket , and Zimbabwe obviously need much development before they become capable of competing over a Test series against a major nation . |
| 12 | This type of program can be used by the individual during lesson time or borrowed to be used in their own time in the school library . |
| 13 | The matron was a sceptical young woman who had seen many different injuries in her short time at the school and heard many bizarre explanations for them . |
| 14 | A near-contemporary judged that ‘ without all question he was a very skilfull man in the Mathematicks , and in his latter time in Witchcraft . ’ |
| 15 | Anand , who claimed that he would not seek re-election , announced that his objectives in his allotted time in government were to increase the participation of the public and business sector in politics , to begin the demilitarization of the political process , and to disengage from commercial practices the armed forces , many of whose leaders headed major companies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In his spare time since the election , Dr Kumar has plunged into books in a bid to re-activate his mind . |
| 18 | Many thanks go to all those who have kept him going in his spare time with their contributions of spare yarn . |
| 19 | 1.2 The employee 's duty not to compete in his spare time As a general rule an employee can not compete with his employer in his spare time without being in breach of his duty of fidelity . |
| 20 | 1.2 The employee 's duty not to compete in his spare time As a general rule an employee can not compete with his employer in his spare time without being in breach of his duty of fidelity . |
| 21 | Williams began studying in his spare time in 1897 and taught himself Latin and Greek , enrolling in a correspondence course at Ruskin Hall , Oxford , in 1900 . |
| 22 | Or what if the painter works for other people in his free time in return for cash ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Pop singer Rod Stewart took inordinate pride in his brief time as a professional with Brentford and would make well-publicized appearances to support Scotland . |
| 25 | It may be helpful to use the structure of Psalm 95 in your quiet time as a pattern for half an hour to an hour or more of worship each day for a while . |
| 26 | With so much to see and do in your short time in Amsterdam why not book your excursions before you travel ? |