Example sentences of "[vb base] their [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the obvious advantage that all countries match their local time to the hours of daylight , but it also means that different countries have different local times . |
| 2 | Also examined are how these households organise their domestic time and tasks , and their attitudes to the changing patterns of work and the problems which arise . |
| 3 | If training officers who devote their full time to training are rare , it is usually because they combine the role of training officer with other functions . |
| 4 | Since August 1980 the unit 's computer has identified visitors who overstay their permitted time in Britain by matching landing and embarkation cards . |
| 5 | One year they 've got long hair and spend their spare time reading Marx , the next they 're shorn like sheep and as conservative as hell . |
| 6 | Some spend their entire time in the water , mating and giving birth to live young in the sea . |
| 7 | The students had no room in which to wait between lectures , but it was suggested to MRCVS that students who lodged near enough might go home if they wanted to , or more usefully spend their non-lecture time in the dissecting room or in the stables , although the Bell & Crown inn , with a good fire , was close at hand . |
| 8 | Perhaps touts spend their free time mugging old ladies and fencing stolen cars . |
| 9 | Now there is a committee of five and like Jim , all are volunteers who spend their free time organising football for the local kids . |