Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] their time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Is n't it actually what they are doing with their time that counts ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was even a cardboard birthday cake about ten feet across which a couple of girls could leap out of if somebody paid for their time and the hire of a van . |
| 9 | The major innovations and discoveries of the 20th century such as transistors , penicillin or nuclear power could not have been predicted before their time nor do their stories have much in common except the the research which led to them could not have been directed towards their discovery . |