Example sentences of "of my [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the whole tenor of my school-day time |
| 2 | Only because it 's one of my all time favourite riffs … |
| 3 | For fifteen years I 've spent much of my spare time scrabbling and grovelling about in the mud and gravels of our upland waterways . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | More attractive were the hillier southern regions of Lewis and Harris where I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I refuse to waste any more of my precious time in here ! ’ |
| 9 | Because we needed food , more and more of my free time was taken up by teaching , even at weekends . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm damned if I 'm going to spend hours of my valuable time meeting every plane that lands . |
| 11 | I was giving up a great deal of my own time , I may say , just to supplement the inadequate teaching he got at Burleigh . |