Example sentences of "in his [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was complete with bar and barman , hot-dog simmerer , king-sized double-doored two-tone refrigerator , drugstore hotplates , big-game trophies on the walls ( the host was a big-game hunter who acted in his spare time ) , and huge , deep , low divans and easy chairs — villainously uncomfortable for men , but marvellously made for cute little women who could tuck their cute little legs away and blazingly efface their cute little pretty little pouting little personalities in niches of the vast furniture and make like cute little pussycats . |
| 32 | In his spare time he works as a reclamation engineer . |
| 33 | These projects were done in his spare time . |
| 34 | Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him . |
| 35 | For librarians the title smacked of the days when running a library " was undertaken by a lecturer " in his spare time " ( compare the teacher-librarian in most British secondary schools ) and they resented the possible implications that running a library was not a full-time job . |
| 36 | Mr Takamoto is an engineer at the Northtown Nissan plant and in his spare time enjoys building robots . |
| 37 | Meanwhile Hunt was studying music in his spare time . |
| 38 | Some of his best work , on glaciation and on Old Red Sandstone , was done in his spare time . |
| 39 | In his spare time he sang in a male voice choir . |
| 40 | He first worked as a weaver , then as a slater , but in his spare time began to learn metal-working skills from the local blacksmith , building a lathe . |
| 41 | He was mainly self-taught as a geologist , and in his spare time he began an amateur interest in geological mapping . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Darby was a cheerfully relaxed young man who compiled cryptic crosswords for a monthly magazine in his spare time . |
| 44 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 45 | Quite sharp enough to know all about dodging income tax on the odd jobs he does in his spare time . |
| 46 | In his spare time Spruce climbed rocks in Wales and Scotland . |
| 47 | In his spare time , Geoff is an active life member of the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust , who dedicate themselves to preserving museum pieces of the rich output of Rolls-Royce and associated companies over the years . |
| 48 | Stitch in his spare time |
| 49 | In his spare time Gavin competes in various rallies . |
| 50 | And in his spare time , he has been on-call for the past six years to wear a yellow helmet as a Retained Leading Firefighter with D Division of Strathclyde Fire Brigade based at Ardrossan . |
| 51 | He worked as a servant to a Brahmin but wrote plays in his spare time and believed firmly in land reform . |
| 52 | In his spare time he sold copies of The Clarion , a socialist newspaper , on street corners . |
| 53 | Shaun , aged 25 , an instructor at the club in his spare time , teaches children as young as six in the art of self defence . |
| 54 | In his spare time he is an Assistant Secretary to the well known Premier League team , Hamilton Accies , for whom he writes the programme . |
| 55 | Jim Clark spends his working day in the store-room of Stoddards Carpets — but in his spare time , he is doing excellent work for Elderslie Boys Club where he has recently arranged a football trip to Holland . |
| 56 | When he lived in Falmouth , Brand was an art teacher , but he gave lectures on astrology and cast horoscopes in his spare time . |
| 57 | During employment the employee may damage his employer 's business in the following ways : ( a ) working for a competitor during his hours of employment ; ( b ) working for a competitor in his spare time ; ( c ) making preparations in order to compete with his employer after he has left ; ( d ) disclosing or using the employer 's business secrets ; or ( e ) failing to disclose information which may be of use to his employer and in some instances personally profiting from its use . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | On the other hand the very nature of the work may be such as to make it quite clear that the duties of the employee to his employer can not properly be performed if he engages in certain activities in his spare time . |