Example sentences of "all [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For ten days I spent all my spare time in a question-and-answer session till the experience started to confuse and hurt me , also — much to my horror — defile me . |
| 2 | Then I started putting all my spare time in my arm … |
| 3 | Lately these blasted articles have taken up all my spare time . |
| 4 | Though I spent my outdoor time playing any game I could , from cricket , tennis , football or boxing at the local gym , all my indoor time was spent buried in books . |
| 5 | Some have been accused — rightly or wrongly — of preferring not to sell all their available time rather than to reduce their price , and most areas now follow a practice which can only really work in a seller 's market — ‘ pre-emption ’ . |
| 6 | As already discussed in the chapter ‘ Retiring on your own ’ there are women who in the real sense have never left home , but have spent all their spare time outside work living with , and later looking after , their parents . |
| 7 | They spent all their spare time together and the courtship developed rapidly . |
| 8 | This week the students who make up the team are spending all their spare time making sure everything 's ship shape to defend their title . |
| 9 | They are terribly irresponsible and spend all their free time drinking with their friends . |
| 10 | I 'm not the kind of person who spends all their free time glued to the telly . |
| 11 | I could n't help noticing that they spent all their off-duty time racing down to London to what they called ‘ a sitting ’ , which tuned out to be another name for a seance . |
| 12 | The Princess Royal intends to devote all her spare time to establishing a happy home life with her new husband and family . |
| 13 | Sal continued her job as a waitress in the Commercial Road and spent all her spare time looking for a husband , while Kitty had no trouble in finding any amount of men who were happy to satisfy her every need . |
| 14 | As the days meandered into each other she found herself spending all her free time painting , even though she had known almost from the start that painting him was not going to exorcise him . |
| 15 | Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain . |
| 16 | He spent all his spare time at the Hampstead house now , not only from a liking for the work he was doing for Paul , and Paul himself , but for the sight , the nearness , of Dinah . |
| 17 | By 1761 Leopold had made a crucial decision — to give up both violin teaching and composition in order to devote all his spare time to furthering the careers and education of his children . |
| 18 | From that day , healing work claimed all his spare time . |
| 19 | Mr Wood works for the water board but he is so concerned about the badgers that he spends all his spare time helping and watching them . |
| 20 | Phil likes to spend all his free time with our two boys , Reg and Ronnie . |
| 21 | He spends all his free time studying and he does n't cloud his brain . |
| 22 | ‘ In a changing environment , where people have to work for a living , it is not so easy to give all your spare time to running golf . ’ |
| 23 | I know that if you are going to be really good at sport you have to concentrate on it completely and give up all your spare time and energy to it . |
| 24 | It was bad enough , he felt , to be cast out by your family , be stuck working in ffeatherstonehaugh 's , and be spending all your spare time working for a degree , without additionally having the stress of falling over dead bodies : the boy needed his sleep . |
| 25 | Many people reckon we are all a bit loony spending all our spare time going round the non-League grounds of the M/SV but I can think of one really good reason for doing it . |