Example sentences of "they spend [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 2 | Leonard also had a little room in the basement in which a piano was kept , where they spent much time together . |
| 3 | They spent some time driving around before the woman persuaded the kidnapper to let her take the child into a shop to get some baby food . |
| 4 | Stirling and Tait managed to make it north to the escarpment where they spent some time observing enemy traffic on the coastal road below . |
| 5 | They spent some time telling him what they thought of him . |
| 6 | They spent some time in the north . ’ |
| 7 | They spent more time on their feet than they did sitting . |
| 8 | The apes fed on a wide range of foods at all times of the year , but when fruit was scarce , they spent more time travelling and turned to less nutritious plant materials as well . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Joanne , however , goes out to work during the day and is out nearly every night , while her mother looks after her eight-month-old daughter , so they spend little time together . |
| 11 | Actives to be sure , serve God with their toil and outward activity , but they spend little time in inner quiet . |
| 12 | Some American analyses have indicated that their average life span may be as much as 10 years longer than that of meat eaters and they spend less time in hospital . |
| 13 | So they spend less time searching for you and more time in your company . |
| 14 | Now with the motorcycles they spend less time travelling and they can spend more time in the villages doing their educational and health work . |
| 15 | It was boring for them and now they go out they spend some time er amongst each other and they have time to chat around . |
| 16 | They are also likely to have greater need for heating than other groups , because they spend more time at home . |
| 17 | Obviously the ratio of direct to indirect work varies with different occupations but , in nearly all , practitioners find that they spend more time on the latter than they think is appropriate . |
| 18 | They are more into weights , running … they spend more time on general fitness . ’ |
| 19 | In the meantime , he says , clients of conservators also need to act responsibly when they entrust a work of art to someone : ‘ They spend more time and more effort looking for an auto mechanic than they do finding someone to restore a work of art ’ . |
| 20 | Actually they spend more time changing discs probably than the |