Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] their time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For citizens can not spend all their time being nationalists : they have to take time off to be members of families , producers , local government councillors and the like . |
| 2 | Harry can not accept the fact that she has activities and commitments that do not directly relate to him , and keeps up a constant pressure on her to give up her job so that they can spend all their time together . |
| 3 | They should neither remain aloof from what goes on in life , nor should they spend all their time solving industrial problems . |
| 4 | The evidence certainly suggests that full-time training officers , who can spend all their time on training , are rare . |
| 5 | The other is that draughtsmen do not spend all their time actually drawing . |
| 6 | Debbie was upset that they did n't spend all their time here with her . ’ |
| 7 | She felt that she was longing more than ever for it to end so that she and John could spend all their time together . |
| 8 | Individuals could spend all their time at work or play . |
| 9 | We certainly set it because if the kids do spend all their time doing these demonstration experiments they 're sure to get bored — life is like that . |
| 10 | Confronted by a section in a Quaternary deposit there are physical geographers who would devote all their time to the analysis of the sediment characteristics and not look at the space relationships of the feature in which the deposit occurs , and there are others who would deliberate about morphological evolution without closely investigating the sediment . |