Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] their time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the good and great could be seen as noble types appearing before their time . |
| 2 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 3 | Up to now I 've avoided mentioning our day-to-day domestic life , for much the same reason that ex-prisoners are reluctant to talk about their time inside . |
| 4 | And therefore for for various reasons their interest in driving , in most cases , not all , cos I mean some of them are very good , but in most cases their interest in driving i is is limited to what they 're gon na do in their time off . |
| 5 | May we respect those who give of their time , their friendship and their talents rather than those who strive always to gain more for themselves Amen |
| 6 | A Job Club is a three week course for unemployed people where they learn techniques of job hunting , curriculum vitae preparation , and interview techniques , and are supplied with free stamps and free telephone calls during their time in the Job Club . |
| 7 | The TA 's members are all civilians during the day , busy at their own careers , and the training and experience volunteers get during their time in uniform provide a different perspective on life . |
| 8 | In addition to fulfilling its primary function ( ie providing support for elderly persons in a residential setting ) , the manager is also concerned with all the financial aspects of the home ; with equipment purchases , catering , maintenance of premises and gardens ; deploying staff , accounting for their time and arranging appropriate payments ; resolving personnel matters , and so on . |
| 9 | We have a lot of people prepared to give of their time voluntarily to help young people get the kind of training they require and to help them find jobs . |
| 10 | For one thing they 've got better things to do with their time . |
| 11 | But the gas has been cut off , which is an appalling piece of vindictiveness on the part of some public servant who ought to know that writers of talent have better things to do with their time than remember dates on bits of paper delivered in brown envelopes like a trade circular . |
| 12 | Something had to be found for the men to do with their time , so someone had the bright idea of introducing ‘ Cook 's Tours ’ — trips over France and Germany in a Lancaster for any of the non-flying staff who cared to take advantage of it , including Waafs . |
| 13 | Any doubt there may be that the family disease is a genuine addictive disease is dispelled when the divorced wife of a primary sufferer promptly marries another or when the parents of young sufferers find themselves depressed and lonely and wondering what to do with their time and experience once their own primary sufferer is in recovery . |
| 14 | All the pilots were different but they all had a common theme , giving people who were out of work something worthwhile to do with their time . |
| 15 | In pointing out that the specific forms of marriage , family , property , and gender relations which existed in their time had not always existed , Marx and Engels were completely right , but in arguing positively that these things were totally absent in primitive society , they were , as we shall see , almost totally wrong . |
| 16 | The past two centuries have seen the gradual evolution of separate educational establishments catering from their time of inception for identifiable disabilities and categories of handicap ( Warnock Report 1978 ) . |
| 17 | Maybe you would n't get so many of them wasted before their time . ’ |
| 18 | Is n't it actually what they are doing with their time that counts ? |
| 19 | The instrument of resurrection was to be the turnpike. this custom prevailing , 't is more than probable , that our posterity may see the roads all over England restored in their time to such a perfection , that travelling and carriage of goods will be much more easy both to man and horse than ever it was since the Romans lost this island . |
| 20 | Readers can be expected to spot which of these quotations are forgeries , and they must also have doubted in their time whether this writer was as good as the early tributes made out . |
| 21 | People need to account for their time for many different reasons and so your final template may look quite different once you have tailored it to your needs . |
| 22 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
| 23 | He and his wife Ann were unstinting of their time in attending lectures , functions and committees and they won the affection and admiration of a great many people at all levels . |
| 24 | The hens ' problems do not end with their time int he battery cage . |
| 25 | We were also convinced that unless we could get the politicians and so called ‘ medical experts ’ to start exercising their minds , then the people in communities like ours would continue to die before their time and our children would be damaged before they even got a chance to live . |
| 26 | LaBudde noted that the quantity of non-target species taken during their time aboard was greater than the quantity of squid harvested . |
| 27 | We are very grateful to the British Council for arranging these visits , and to all those who so willingly gave of their time to talk to and entertain us . |
| 28 | Thanks were also extended to all the club members who gave of their time and hard graft to ensure that fun was had by all . |
| 29 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 30 | Gielgud , too , through the agency of his mother , produced reviews to prove that the golden oldies of the classic past with whom Burton was being compared to his disadvantage had been just as slammed in their time . |