Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] their own time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programs are designed to enable students to work in their own time and at their own pace . |
| 2 | That so many disputes were reported in the range of newspapers consulted by Dobson is indicative of a much larger population , either not yet discovered by historians or not reported in their own time . |
| 3 | This directive encourages officers to research and study in their own time and lists suitable subjects , which include ‘ public administration , management studies , economics , law , criminology , social sciences , youth work , English language and literature and relevant modern languages ’ . |
| 4 | Marksmanship was relatively unaffected when the soldiers were allowed to shoot in their own time at a target , but when shooting was combined with a vigilance task ( with the target appearing briefly at unpredictable times ) , the number of hits was dramatically reduced . |
| 5 | Mankind ( me ) , he thought , mashing up the rest of the mattress because he was n't going to spend the night braced for a lot of bedsprings to bust in their own time , is idyllic in his intentions , tragic in his fate , and farcical in his functions . |
| 6 | He reckons there are no shortages of possible uses — farmers can use it to do their accounts , women with child-care responsibilities can work in their own time on the word processors , publicity material for local craftsmen can be produced and so on . |
| 7 | Things happen in their own time , on Vadinamia . |
| 8 | This type of program can be used by the individual during lesson time or borrowed to be used in their own time in the school library . |
| 9 | One package will address the common queries and concerns which many women have upon experiencing this event , and would be designed for women who have just had a miscarriage to read in their own time . |
| 10 | This " dark figure " is unknowable , but there is a clear enough indication that organisations of a type which would later become familiar as " trade unions " but were better known to their own time as workers ' " combinations " were well established and widespread among skilled workers in the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Mr Major insisted that nobody was sent by the Tory Party to take part in last year 's presidential campaign and that two Central Office staff whose trip was funded by the Republicans had gone in their own time and paid their own personal expenses . |
| 12 | Babies like to arrive at their own time , Celia recalled her gynaecologist saying . |
| 13 | They would say whatever it was they had to say in their own time . |
| 14 | Your managers work in their own time , so there 's no need to disrupt busy work schedules . |
| 15 | They travelled in their own time and in their own personal capacities and their expenses were paid by their hosts . ’ |
| 16 | One may go on saying that newer nations will develop and strengthen in the way that , say , Pakistan have in their own time in Test cricket , and Zimbabwe obviously need much development before they become capable of competing over a Test series against a major nation . |