Example sentences of "of [pos pn] time [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although one lists other interests in his life like Bolton Wanderers Football Club — frankly he devoted 99% of his time to his work . |
| 2 | In all , between 1773 and 1790 , he is reckoned to have spent £30,000 of his own money and to have devoted a third of his time to his crusade to record and improve prison conditions . |
| 3 | Frank spent most of his time with his blindfold down or under his blanket , Brian and I read and exchanged ideas , plans and insults . |
| 4 | He spent most of his time with his godmother , which left Theda free to do some long-neglected tasks for herself , for her meagre wardrobe of old — and some cast-off — clothing required frequent mending , and , there being so little service , she must wash her linen herself . |
| 5 | He rarely came into the office , spending most of his time with his old friends waxing lyrical about his splendid son-in-law to be . |
| 6 | The idea was not of course original to Wordsworth , but his expression of it is unusually convincing ; and he is ahead of his time in his recognition of the ‘ subconscious mind ’ — this phrase had not yet come into the language , and Wordsworth 's ‘ workings of the spirit ’ — he has many other phrases — are not always seen to refer to this . |
| 7 | He returned home only for a week or so each month and spent most of his time in his bathroom , which contained a colour television , telephones and a fully stocked cocktail bar . |
| 8 | Although he is based in Paris and spends a great deal of his time in his various houses in France , Lagerfeld is , in the way he conducts his life and work , a relic of an older Germany — a country of small principalities , ruled , like Herzog 's eighteenth-century Weimar , by cultured and cultivated monarchs who surrounded themselves with small courts of aristocrats , intellectuals and kindred creative spirits . |
| 9 | Ironically enough , Rameau was among the most resourceful and imaginative composers of his time in his treatment of the orchestra , and the least in need of what we might call d'Indification . |
| 10 | Christensen , a 37 year old Danish man , spent some of his time in his uncle 's flat in Southam Road in Banbury . |
| 11 | Aside from his concert appearances in Singapore , Jackson spent most of his time in his hotel . |
| 12 | The alternative , however , is to spend most of his time in his cell . |