Example sentences of "they [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the new game she had invented of punishing one or both of them each time they were beastly to her made her life more or less bearable . |
| 2 | If you need glasses or contact lenses to reach the eyesight standard , you must wear them each time you drive . |
| 3 | Oh they just There would always be somebody would be on the road at any time looking for harvest time and my father would say to someone , tell the McGregors We called them that time , so the McGregors came up went tell told the others . |
| 4 | The cat has relatively large eyes , and their design makes them eight times more sensitive than our own , giving it superb nocturnal vision . |
| 5 | The Watch had ensured this by giving them ample time to escape via the back door , a neat compromise between caution and justice that benefited all parties . |
| 6 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 7 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 8 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |
| 9 | It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward . |
| 10 | It might take them some time to find out about Laura , because the interesting part of the story took place some years earlier . |
| 11 | We used a wages robbery for a couple of them some time later . |
| 12 | ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea . |
| 13 | They 'd have to walk the road in both directions , and it would take them some time . |
| 14 | For earlier , the grandma , who had left them some time ago , had pulled out a drawer from a deal tallboy , and put a noxious blanket in it , ready for the baby 's birth . |
| 15 | It had left them some time to take stock of their lives . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll have to tell them some time . ’ |
| 17 | " Your aunt became interested in selling them some time before she died . |
| 18 | Have actually already covered them another time and I do n't want to get deeper in the stealth now than that , there 's a limit on the time now available this morning . |
| 19 | For them free time is likely to be more important than work itself . |
| 20 | Each has won once , and there should n't be much between them this time . |
| 21 | Hick , a member of their 1983 World Cup squad when only 17 , will be opposing them this time . |
| 22 | It was unthinkable , of course , to take them this time , but it was a wrench leaving them behind with Polly . |
| 23 | Well , I 'm finding homes for them this time . |
| 24 | So so that 's I 'll give you some of them this time |
| 25 | Two of them this time , both carrying holstered pistols . |
| 26 | His face was moving a little , twitching by one eye , but he saw them this time . |
| 27 | Charlie was n't with them this time . |
| 28 | She intones , in ominous transatlantic baritone : ‘ We licked them this time , but they 'll be back again . |
| 29 | For some reason they seem to believe that you will obey them this time . |
| 30 | And now you have Prozac , why should we believe them this time ? |