Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | so he said I said I do n't have to tell you where I were last night David , I were out , so I said even if I were in it 's none of your concern I said what I do in my private time is up to me , he said well why was n't you there ? |
| 2 | As Derek Brown of Birchfield , who at 13 years old and speculating on a career in athletics , spending two evenings and a Sunday morning training , said : ‘ I do n't let it bother my school work 'cause I can get it all done in my other time , but this [ athletics ] is what I 'd really like to do ; I keep setting myself goals every year to get to the top . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | It helped when I used to do a bit of coal-bag carrying in my spare time to earn some pin money . |
| 5 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 6 | In my spare time I saw a lot of John Keay , an Agriculture graduate of the U. of Saskatchewan and a good friend , as well as Jerry Harwood and Quincey Moffat with whom I was closely associated in organizing the annual Boys ' Parliament elections . |
| 7 | What do I do in my spare time ? |
| 8 | ‘ I had always had private clients in my spare time and they were gathering momentum , ’ she says . |
| 9 | It was a pleasure to be paid for what I had up until then been doing in my spare time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was already working as Derek 's apprentice carpet-fitter in my spare time — when I had any — but the wage I was getting was going not only on the birds ' upkeep but also on mine . |
| 12 | Work which can earn me money in my spare time . |
| 13 | In my spare time I was taking boat parties out from Mid Yell , and I ‘ used ’ that animal all summer , rarely failing to find it . |
| 14 | I 'm quite an artistic person ; in retrospect , I think perhaps I should have risen to the challenge and maybe applied to do a language , because I really enjoy literature and languages in my spare time . |
| 15 | ‘ I come here in my spare time . ’ |
| 16 | Being something of a closet linguist , I was teaching myself some Arabic in my spare time . |
| 17 | But I used to do work for customer down the garage there he used to have two cars to hire and I drove one in my spare time . |
| 18 | I 've spent the last two years converting this place in my spare time ; it 's only recently been habitable enough to live in . ’ |
| 19 | In my spare time I wrote stories , painted wonderful illustrations , and made magazines , with crossword puzzles and problem pages . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't have to ask you what I should do in my spare time , and — and I suppose now you wo n't want to help me find my mother , and that 's all right with me , I do n't care ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've always been interested in old furniture and I 've swotted it up a bit in my spare time . ’ |
| 23 | In my spare time , I 'm chairman of Hurworth Parish Council , and I 'm also on Darlington Borough Council . |
| 24 | I continued teaching for about 18 months , keeping up my studies for an M.A. in my spare time . |
| 25 | Well it 's just erm ah I do n't know , I mean there 's there 's certain things I mean , it it 's like this maths I mean , I I spoke to her erm and she said yes Lee had come on and everything in his maths and I said we the thing is , I said , knowing Lee has difficulty in in th l in the high level maths , yes you do n't want to drop him , but surely I said I 'm willing to help in my spare time , Lee 's willing to do it and I said ca n't you show Lee I said I 'm not I was n't trying to tell her |
| 26 | And in my spare time |
| 27 | I would I 'd like to be a dance teacher when I grow up and in my spare time I would do I would like to do dancing and swimming . |
| 28 | In my spare in my spare time I 'd like to be , like to do dancing and swimming . |
| 29 | ‘ Where I go in my free time is none of your business , you interfering old cow . ’ |
| 30 | However , he added : ‘ On my few visits prior to my appointment , and in my short time here since , I have found it very far from that . |