Example sentences of "of his time [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) has spent much of his time over the past few months telling industry about his policies . |
| 2 | Even Isaac Newton ( 1642–1727 ) , although not directly influenced by Joachim , devoted much of his time to the correlation of prophecy , history , and the end of the world . |
| 3 | Before the Vancouver summit with Boris Yeltsin , the Russian leader , he was devoting a third of his time to the summit agenda . |
| 4 | Nurturing this side of the business — with dramatic success — has occupied most of his time for the past 10 years . |
| 5 | In 1960 James published a personal study of his time with the P.N.M. , ‘ Party Politics ’ , in which he managed a retort to Dr.Williams that was equally as terse but considerably more acerbic : ‘ In my time here I have ‘ discussed ’ socialism with Dr.Williams for at most three minutes . ’ |
| 6 | When Brin goes to Belgium , he 'll leave behind one memento of his time with the Resistance . |
| 7 | When Brin goes to Belgium , he 'll leave behind one memento of his time with the Resistance . |
| 8 | He recently retired as editor of the Eye but he still spends much of his time at the magazine 's cramped offices in Soho . |
| 9 | Kalm was an excellent observer , a meticulous recorder and made the most of his time at the Physic Garden , which he judged to rival those of Paris and Leyden at the time , and believed it to ‘ overgo them in North American plants ’ . |
| 10 | Days passed and Jack spent most of his time at the hospital . |
| 11 | Towards the end of his time at the College , Auerbach , like others , witnessed a deterioration in Minton 's person . |
| 12 | Spends most of his time on the Continent . |
| 13 | A little light relief in an otherwise routine opening day was provided by Walter Ablett from Essex ; a self-confessed working class Tory complete with cloth cap , he spent much of his time on the platform berating Labour 's efforts in Blackpool last week . |
| 14 | In many respects , Finniston was ahead of his time in the management policies he adopted during the period he was chairman of British Steel but he stresses that commercial strategy without enlightened personnel policies can never be successful . |
| 15 | Nicholson , who was spending a good deal of his time in the new BBS offices , which he hoped would be the starting point of his own aspirations towards directing , chipped in with the observation that his biker pictures had all grossed respectable money and made very handsome profits from a low outlay . |
| 16 | He spent most of his time in the prison hospital , being dried out . |
| 17 | He spent most of his time in the kitchens , among blue neon flytraps and steaming silver vats . |
| 18 | The male parent , having chased away the female , spent most of his time in the nest , swishing about to ensure a constant flow of oxygenated water over the eggs . |
| 19 | While other members of the Forces , such as John Carrow , had given their lives in liberating Europe , Freddie Nash , with his tact and sociability , had spent most of his time in the Services either in an administrative capacity at Southern Command or in the War Office . |
| 20 | He spoke movingly of his time in the trenches in the First War and of how a whole generation , many of them his friends , had been wiped out , of the effect that the unemployment of the 1930s had on his political thinking , of how being Prime Minister was less demanding than being an ordinary Minister , of ( and this with tears in his eyes ) his devotion to his late wife , who had fallen dead of a heart attack close to where we were sitting , of his belief in God . |
| 21 | His account book of his time in the Warwickshire militia survives . |
| 22 | He wore a country suit of thick , redbrown material , and his skin showed that he spent most of his time in the open air . |
| 23 | He spent the rest of his time in the local bar , which I 'd called The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea . |
| 24 | It is true to say that he was almost exclusively concerned with military operations , and he spent much of his time in the latter stages of the war at a series of international conferences . |
| 25 | Mr Murphy said of his time in the Belmarsh top security prison : ‘ The experience was devastating . ’ |
| 26 | He lived in a hall of residence but spent most of his time in the computer laboratory , sometimes staying there all night . |