Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the new game she had invented of punishing one or both of them each time they were beastly to her made her life more or less bearable . |
| 2 | I gave you one of them last time did n't I ? |
| 3 | Three-quarters of the store 's 164 staff , half of them full time , will lose their jobs . |
| 4 | We used a wages robbery for a couple of them some time later . |
| 5 | So so that 's I 'll give you some of them this time |
| 6 | Two of them this time , both carrying holstered pistols . |
| 7 | 15 million people did it in 1985 — will you be one of them this time ? |
| 8 | Through the whole tenor of my school-day time |
| 9 | Only because it 's one of my all time favourite riffs … |
| 10 | For fifteen years I 've spent much of my spare time scrabbling and grovelling about in the mud and gravels of our upland waterways . |
| 11 | I am so pleased with the Elna ; I began making my bedroom curtains some time ago , but had to steel myself and put them away , as the ‘ British Biographies ’ book was exerting great pressure to keep to its schedule and I had to work on it in much of my spare time . |
| 12 | More attractive were the hillier southern regions of Lewis and Harris where I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing . |
| 13 | At that time I lived on the flat and rather featureless coast of East Anglia , and spent most of my spare time sailing its lonely creeks and estuaries . |
| 14 | Having spent some of my limited time pouring over heavy ( in weight ) ‘ how to paint ’ library books , and investing in impulse art book buys , I find articles by I am Simpson , Robin Stemp , Jenny Webb and many others a simple joy for a struggling amateur . |
| 15 | ‘ I refuse to waste any more of my precious time in here ! ’ |
| 16 | Because we needed food , more and more of my free time was taken up by teaching , even at weekends . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm damned if I 'm going to spend hours of my valuable time meeting every plane that lands . |
| 18 | I was giving up a great deal of my own time , I may say , just to supplement the inadequate teaching he got at Burleigh . |
| 19 | Furthermore , immature females tended to spend proportionately more of their grooming time with females ranking higher than their mothers . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Every moment of their spare time had been spent cleaning and painting , and , with the help of Helen 's handyman , they had put up shelves and partitions , and the gleaming , spotless rooms did credit to their hard work . |
| 24 | What shoppers really want , it says , is American-style freephone numbers , so they can shop from home and spend more of their spare time socialising or playing sport . |
| 25 | Attempts to create multimedia resources were really ahead of their technological time . |
| 26 | Finally governors recognised that a fully established committee structure might involve an unreasonable amount of their own time . |
| 27 | Indeed I detect a genuine and growing support for Agriculture in schools , evident from pupils and their parents , whenever leadership is given by an enthusiastic teacher , and I have met a number of these , giving freely of their own time and sometimes of their limited funds as well . |
| 28 | Paradoxically this makes the moral and dynastic problems in the books less taxing to young readers , because they are isolated from the pressures of their own time . |
| 29 | He argues that his work is not Edwardian in projection , that his pictures borrow something from other eras , but have a buoyant vitality that is of their own time . |
| 30 | Secondly , since 1975 , people who conduct their own litigation have become entitled to costs in respect of their own time and effort spent preparing and presenting the case . |