Example sentences of "[verb] the time they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We felt it was important that smokers limited the time they spend away from their desks . |
| 2 | This is one reason why TV buyers may wish to keep part of their budgets flexible beyond the time when they might usually prefer to commit themselves — they may , of course , find that they can not buy the time they want , but this is a risk they may be willing to take in order to get a better price . |
| 3 | The High Court has rules that life prisoners who are sent to mental hospitals are still serving their sentences and can count the time they serve in hospital towards their parole . |
| 4 | However , their " day " lengthened to nearly 26 hours , so that when they resurfaced , they underestimated the time they had spent below ground . |
| 5 | I noted the time they woke up every day , the places they fed , the food they ate , the time of year they made their nests , and so on . |
| 6 | He has to keep these kids in the team because there 's nothing better to replace them — yet even five years ago Jamie Redknapp and Don Hutchison would have been back in the reserves , getting the time they need . |
| 7 | For all her life , Beth would cherish the time they had had together , and she would always regret their parting , and yet , and yet , he was a scoundrel of the worst kind . |
| 8 | Ask the time they go to bed ? |
| 9 | This means the time they spend in the public sector is often much less than that for which they are contracted . |
| 10 | At precisely the time that the Party leadership was extolling the horse as a modern and fuel-saving means of transport , it was also planning to increase the journey-times of the rural population and make them more dependent on motor transport — or perhaps to shorten the time they had left to themselves , to sleep , think and so on . |
| 11 | We will increase the time they have for each patient by reversing the financial pressures to take on too many patients . |