Example sentences of "their [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 In spite of everything , they had managed to reach home at their usual time .
2 ‘ It is not their usual time .
3 She was completely and obstinately happy through these their joyous times , these flying years of the " thirties .
4 Scattered experts will contribute to complex team interfaces , but only if frequent pruning ensures that their scarce time is n't wasted on needless meetings .
5 On that particular day many children , who were sitting examinations , would not be travelling at their normal time which is the peak time for traffic on the road .
6 The ranch , the children , all had snapped back to their normal time .
7 Perhaps touts spend their free time mugging old ladies and fencing stolen cars .
8 By 1988 the Union had over 700 health professionals giving their free time voluntarily , providing services to 50,000 patients , and reaching over one-quarter of the populated localities of the territories .
9 It will also help you to keep track of how they are using their free time
10 It would also keep students busy in their free time , keeping ‘ bourgeois liberalism ’ at bay .
11 The real reason for the compulsory exercise , some students believed , was to further intrude into their free time in an already highly regimented day .
12 If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ?
13 While the slow process of discharging cargo goes on the four apprentices , firm friends in spite of temperamental differences , are fired by legends of hidden treasure to explore the hills behind the town in their free time .
14 It has yet to be proved to me that these men out of the dingy side-streets ever did anything better with their free time and their shillings . ’
15 They are terribly irresponsible and spend all their free time drinking with their friends .
16 There had to be when they were working together , worshipping tripping over one another in their free time , perhaps even sharing a house .
17 Now there is a committee of five and like Jim , all are volunteers who spend their free time organising football for the local kids .
18 An overall activity index ( graded from 2 to 9 ) was then calculated on the basis of the patient 's activity ( graded from 1 ( light ) to 3 ( heavy ) ) at work , during their free time and , where applicable , during sporting activity .
19 The only difference was that they now spent some of their free time together , thus giving her even more opportunities to fall more and more deeply in love with him .
20 It 's wonderful the way the students give up their free time to help our children
21 I 'm not the kind of person who spends all their free time glued to the telly .
22 Mrs Coates said : ‘ We have had a lot of support getting this set up , many local firms have contributed and a lot of people have given their free time .
23 The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding .
24 people who work together tend to spend their non-work time with persons from the same industry .
25 Since August 1980 the unit 's computer has identified visitors who overstay their permitted time in Britain by matching landing and embarkation cards .
26 ‘ This is only their second time , ’ he replied .
27 Yeah , but so do they , and their official time is half past seven to half past eight in n it ?
28 Well they 're a bit over the , their stated time are n't they ?
29 Furthermore , immature females tended to spend proportionately more of their grooming time with females ranking higher than their mothers .
30 They still subordinate their cash earning potential to the demands on their unpaid time and energy from their role in the family .
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