Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [prep] their time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thought they could regain his soul by sorcery , and so they devoted all of their time to weaving a spell to do so . |
| 2 | Males can produce sperms at a faster rate than females can produce eggs , and are therefore selected to allocate more of their time to searching and competing for mates than are females . |
| 3 | Children with a very severe mental or physical handicap can spend some of their time at special schools or residential centres , but once they reach adulthood facilities are often no longer available . |
| 4 | Without wishing to detract from the impact of the number of dogs put to sleep weekly by the RSPCA , it must be realised that this number would be much higher if vets themselves did not also spend much of their time carrying out euthanasia . |
| 5 | Obviously the leaders of major organisations can not spend much of their time in schools , but their occasional visits would complement the very valuable support which can be given on a regular and consistent basis by businesses and people who work within them . |
| 6 | Ironically , in some cultures ( e.g. UK ) , many of these people will spend much of their time complaining about the very structure and rationality they were seeking . |
| 7 | But most students will spend much of their time working in the college library , study centre or some other room set aside for quiet study ( i.e. not the refectory or student union ) . |
| 8 | Domestic cats left to fend for themselves in the wild would still spend much of their time asleep , and conserve their energy for hunting at dawn and dusk . |
| 9 | Now , as the rather skimpy Consciousness and Behaviour outlines , psychologists are having to face the fact that most people do n't spend most of their time behaving like witless rats . |
| 10 | Thus children in a primary school will spend most of their time with the same teacher in any one year , while secondary school pupils will be taught by a variety of different teachers . |
| 11 | Primary schools devote much of their time to discussion . |
| 12 | When she had subsided , and we had recovered from our surprise at this outburst , we asked her whether the small and large hominids were strictly savannah species or whether they spent much of their time in forests . |
| 13 | When the boys had been placed in good schools , William and Isabella spent much of their time travelling in Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 14 | The women actually had rather strong ties , since they spent much of their time doing household tasks communally outside . |
| 15 | They were very isolated from other members of the team because they were essentially ward based , while the more senior staff spent much of their time in outpatient clinics and operating theatres — often in different hospitals . |
| 16 | Thus they spent much of their time debating the validity of various evaluation procedures as potential responses . |
| 17 | Low commented that the British in India spent much of their time on long journeys by rail , and their journeys were ‘ elaborate proceedings , not to be transacted in the casual fashion ’ customary in Europe : |
| 18 | Thus , girls generally spent more of their time than boys on work and associated routine activities . |
| 19 | Endill and Mould spent most of their time together working on their plan . |
| 20 | For years the family spent most of their time in internecine struggle . |
| 21 | Indeed Katie 's group , when I 'd pushed them into talking about Mitch a little more , spent most of their time examining his picture and finding fault with his appearance . |
| 22 | The Tunisian national team had the questionable pleasure of sharing a training camp with Scotland , their manager Abdelmajid Chetali claimed that Scottish players spent most of their time shirking training . |
| 23 | I gathered that during the summer she and the child spent most of their time on the beach . ’ |
| 24 | In the first instance , it was in many ways conventionally arranged : the teachers and their groups spent most of their time within their home bases where provision was made for most types of activity . |
| 25 | According to IDC 's Steve Frantzen , staff spent most of their time ‘ running around ’ the former Czechoslovakia . |
| 26 | Even though there were some special local problems to take into account , to a large extent the regime at Feltham , where teenagers spent most of their time locked up in their cells , was victim to the malaise endemic to the prison system as a whole . |
| 27 | While they were accustomed to being absolute rulers in Hanover they realized that being King of England was more important than being Elector of Hanover and they spent most of their time in England , but they never felt entirely at ease in the forty-six years during which they ruled in London . |
| 28 | And while these women were not displeased with the role of housewife they did not like housework , despite the fact that this was what they spent most of their time doing . |
| 29 | He hated pomp and humbug , and he resigned from the National Academy of Sciences because he found that they spent most of their time deciding which other scientists should be admitted to the Academy . |
| 30 | In our own studies , the ostensibly collaborative setting of the group tended to be one in which children spent most of their time on essentially individual reading and writing tasks . |