Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] their time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For one thing they 've got better things to do with their time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The non-church-goers in the community proved hard to win , and those who had lapsed from church attendance some twenty years previously saw no need to reconsider at their time of life . |