Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] spare time " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then on the film is a partially credible but increasingly fantastic documentation of the relationship between the two which develops as she teaches him to read during her spare time . |
| 2 | Unemployment may mean that people have more leisure time available but lack of money restricts the kind of activities they are able to participate in during their spare time . |
| 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 | ‘ Randy 's a major collector of guitars ; he and Brian dedicate most of their spare time to tracking down old Gretsches all over the country . |
| 8 | There 's no point in sending them off on endless — no doubt excellent — courses if there 's no incentive for them to use up large slices of their spare time in teaching the game . |
| 9 | A recent survey by educationalist Zaida Cavalcanti in the North-eastern city of Recife showed that middle-class children spend two-thirds of their spare time in front of the television . |
| 10 | Every moment of their spare time had been spent cleaning and painting , and , with the help of Helen 's handyman , they had put up shelves and partitions , and the gleaming , spotless rooms did credit to their hard work . |
| 11 | What shoppers really want , it says , is American-style freephone numbers , so they can shop from home and spend more of their spare time socialising or playing sport . |
| 12 | Larissa , 40 , became a teacher so that she would have more time with her children , but she spends most of her spare time in queues . |
| 13 | She was not unduly concerned about the murdered woman but was reminded that Camille spent much of her spare time slouching along the canal banks , sometimes in company , sometimes , she greatly feared , alone . |
| 14 | FOR 25 years Marjorie MacRae has devoted much of her spare time to the teaching of Scottish country dancing . |
| 15 | Much of her spare time is spent acting as secretary to her husband , who is Deputy President ( Technical ) of the B.A.G.A. The rare weekend not taken up with Medau or Gymnastics sees them both actively pursuing their other hobby — rambling ! |
| 16 | Much of her spare time is taken up acting as Paul 's secretary for gymnastics with the occasional game of badminton and tennis thrown in ! |
| 17 | Part of his spare time was taken up with the marching band of the university , but much of it was given to boisterous evenings drinking and singing with his companion — always with a view to winning the girls ' eyes and hearts . |
| 18 | Between 1949 and 1954 much of his spare time had been given to poetic scribbling ; and he was also giving voice to a measure of vacillation and disillusionment , which we shall encounter in his poetry from time to time . |
| 19 | Howard : Howard is a keen walker , spending much of his spare time climbing in the hills and tramping through mud and running streams . |
| 20 | He spends as much of his spare time as possible with his family , and enjoys caravanning and home wine-making . |
| 21 | Kurt Weinburg , evacuated to Cornwall with his school , was active in the Boy Scouts , spending much of his spare time on salvage collections . |
| 22 | He spent most of his spare time up at Skiplam , where the girl he courted was the only child of a wealthy farmer . |
| 23 | Piper has finished sparring and when he 's not out running he spends most of his spare time with his birds . |
| 24 | He has now finished sparring for the big fight and when he 's not out running he spends most of his spare time with his birds . |
| 25 | Tom would n't talk about it and spent most of his spare time at his club . |
| 26 | He had spent much of his spare time working on a theory for the formation of atmospheric depressions and decided to devote all his time to it ; he resigned from the Meteorological Office to become a graduate student at Imperial College . |
| 27 | He seems to spend most of his spare time keeping an eye on your house . ’ |
| 28 | Together with his wife Lilian , the Group quality circle facilitator spends hours of his spare time counting cross-stitching . |
| 29 | For many years his studies had absorbed every moment of his spare time , now they would be his full-time occupation . |
| 30 | Neighbours spoke of a quiet man who spent most of his spare time working for charity . |