Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] their [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the uniforms and CID from all over the county are offering to work in their spare time . ’ |
| 2 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 3 | Each guest 's name and room number are recorded , plus his or her newspaper requirements , their room status and the time of their alarm call if needed ( the system automatically rings at their selected time ) . |
| 4 | Virtually none of the industry 's first generation of Magnox power stations were built within their expected time or cost . |
| 5 | Each creature has evolved to operate most efficiently during a particular part of the sun 's cycle , and some are now locked into their chosen time slot . |
| 6 | He replied that it was because in his youth there was little to do in their spare time except read and study . |
| 7 | Barbara Andrews of Rhyl said her son Mark and his friends were desperate for letters as there was so little for them to do in their spare time . |
| 8 | On that particular day many children , who were sitting examinations , would not be travelling at their normal time which is the peak time for traffic on the road . |
| 9 | The real reason for the compulsory exercise , some students believed , was to further intrude into their free time in an already highly regimented day . |
| 10 | These have moved away from a concern with what young people did in their spare time and the transition from school to work towards looking at unemployment and state policies . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Well I mean it 's often things that people do in their spare time the , the record keeping is n't perfect and , and |
| 13 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 14 | Some of the labourers , the male labourers , was Italian prisoners of war And the things that they used to make in their spare time , well some of them was very very clever , you know . |
| 15 | It would also keep students busy in their free time , keeping ‘ bourgeois liberalism ’ at bay . |