Example sentences of "of [pos pn] time [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , as Barrett and McMahon ( 1990 ) demonstrate from their learning-network of senior health service managers , this is what good managers spend a great deal of their time on . |
| 2 | Auditors and consultants who spend more than 50% of their time out of the LA and Chicago offices will no longer have their own desk space . |
| 3 | It only ventures out at night , and spends most of its time up in trees or scrambling through scrub . |
| 4 | So while Maria Candida retched and wailed and dabbed at her nose in the cabin , Sara spent most of her time up on deck , either with Dom Alfonso , who was acting as Dom João 's agent , or — on the calmer days — further for 'd , where she could watch the porpoises leaping round the bows and listen to the creak of timber and the wind in the rigging . |
| 5 | But even that last saving grace of their relationship had begun to collapse when she had had to spend so much of her time down in Devon , looking after her father and his chaotic affairs . |
| 6 | Futch , having closely questioned Bowe about his aspirations , set a trap to catch any would-be thief of his time up in his training headquarters in Reno . |
| 7 | Victor Lewis-Smith killed it , in one of his Time Out columns , with a heartfelt appeal for a gadget which would enable us to break the last tiny piece of poppadam into two equal pieces . |