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

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1 ‘ I had always had private clients in my spare time and they were gathering momentum , ’ she says .
2 In my spare time and during vacations , between 1976 and 1978 , I set up what later came to be called the Standing Conference of Asian Youth Organizations .
3 I love working with handicapped people ; I did similar work in Australia in my spare time and , you have to admit , it does make a pleasant change from accidents and medicals . ’
4 Those designs are mine , done in my own time and made up by my own outworkers .
5 But that is in my own time and what I do in my own time is up to me . ’
6 ‘ I 'll see to Nogai in my own time and I advise you not to interfere . ’
7 He replied that it was because in his youth there was little to do in their spare time except read and study .
8 Now she and Philip create designer jewellery in their spare time that they sell through galleries and museums in Britain and America .
9 These have moved away from a concern with what young people did in their spare time and the transition from school to work towards looking at unemployment and state policies .
10 This directive encourages officers to research and study in their own time and lists suitable subjects , which include ‘ public administration , management studies , economics , law , criminology , social sciences , youth work , English language and literature and relevant modern languages ’ .
11 They can then absorb the literature in their own time and make up their own minds .
12 Fangorn agrees when he says of his own dying species , ‘ songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way , and sometimes they are withered untimely ’ .
13 So an essential skill of counselling is to avoid completely the giving of advice , and to allow counsellees to take what eventually must be their responsibility to arrive at their own decision , in their own time and in their own way .
14 Nurses in training who work hard physically , study in their own time and have numerous personal commitments are under pressure .
15 And they 're not coming back for their education ; they 're coming back for the support that Arbour gives them , so they may spend more time with Monica in the nursery looking after the baby and gradually they 'll move back into the classroom in their own time and get back to their exams .
16 The programs are designed to enable students to work in their own time and at their own pace .
17 Piano lessons will be an optional extra taken by students in their own time and at their own expense .
18 Reflectors like reaching decisions in their own time and on training courses they actually like to feel that they consider the situation and they do n't want feel sort of too rushed before they act .
19 But we all have our own ideas about the answers to these big questions and it ought to be left to the discretion of class teachers to allow their pupils to learn about life 's problems in their own time and at their own pace .
20 They travelled in their own time and in their own personal capacities and their expenses were paid by their hosts . ’
21 Mr Major insisted that nobody was sent by the Tory Party to take part in last year 's presidential campaign and that two Central Office staff whose trip was funded by the Republicans had gone in their own time and paid their own personal expenses .
22 The other buses were either spread out in their running time or cut down to form the evening frequency which was less than what it was during the peak time and so I , you know , I 'd , I 'd left it at then , when I went in the forces then , he carried on .
23 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 .
24 But the fact that each group came into existence in its own time and for its own reasons , and found its own identity and direction , means that we need have no fear about it losing its autonomy vis-à-vis the other groups .
25 In those days there seemed so many vistas ahead that I did not mind when I began to go public : it was sufficiently gratifying to feel that Eliot wanted to print some of my work in his good time and in mine .
26 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 .
27 ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’
28 He worked as a servant to a Brahmin but wrote plays in his spare time and believed firmly in land reform .
29 The important points which emerge from this case are that the employer will be able to rely on this part of the duty of fidelity if it can be shown that the employee works for a trade competitor in his spare time and : ( a ) knows of business secrets which may be of use to the competitor and/or ( b ) occupies a position which makes it expedient to recognise the existence of his duty to work for the employer alone .
30 Traditionally an Englishman is as much what he does in his free time as in his hours of work , and both Who 's who and the obituary columns honour this fact .
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