Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun pl] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was full of leather and PVC-clothed young people , banging their heads in time to the music . |
| 2 | During this period contractors frequently made payments in cash and individual sub-contractors changed their names from time to time to avoid detection by Inland Revenue inspectors . |
| 3 | Again if you think about how many people actually provide their goods on time to their customers ninety five percent of the time or provide the goods and provide them on time that record is their record is very good . |
| 4 | Barclays has run into a sequence of big borrowers who can not service their debts on time and can not sell their assets to repay the debts . |
| 5 | A few , those who had been last in the line , turned their horses in time and rode for Ruthyn to carry the news , and were not hindered in their going . |
| 6 | Indeed , one of the hallmarks of a living party system is that the parties develop or even modify their positions over time , as they seek to adapt to changing political circumstances . |
| 7 | Afterwards they went to a nightclub and danced and smooched in the smoky blackness , cleaning their throats from time to time with champagne . |
| 8 | Other telecoms firms might well be interested in getting their hands on Time Warner 's sackful of valuable entertainment copyrights . |
| 9 | The definition we shall adopt here , in the tradition of Hume and many others , is one that takes causal circumstances and hence causes to precede their effects in time . |
| 10 | Information is correct at the time of going to press , but museums may have to vary their hours from time to time and it is worth checking before a special visit is made , especially around Christmas , Easter and Bank Holidays . |
| 11 | We want to be known as people who pay their bills on time and can be trusted and depended on for help if needed . |
| 12 | Management accounts are easily accessed , and allow criteria selection to make listing aged debtors ( a sadly increasing race of accounts departments that do n't pay their bills on time ) and so forth very easy . |
| 13 | They have orders — although perhaps not as many as they had — but also cash flow problems , because the companies they supply do not pay their bills on time . |
| 14 | The orchestra was playing a polka and the audience tapped their feet in time to the rhythm . |
| 15 | Not only was the great forest of Wychwood being felled , but they had lost their manor and the family who had governed their lives from time immemorial . |
| 16 | In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon . |
| 17 | It enlisted the help of the Town Crier to encourage parishioners to empty their larders in time for Lent . |
| 18 | I am more concerned about employers who employ only a few people and whose main criterion is the flexibility of being able to take on staff , to change their hours from time to time and , on occasions , to get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week when they are busy . |
| 19 | If all causal circumstances and causes precede their effects in time , it seems we have in that temporal consideration a second basis for the asymmetry we are considering . |
| 20 | As I said when answering the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) I have written individually to the chairmen of the 100 largest companies urging them to pay close attention to settling their debts on time . |
| 21 | Apart from San Marino 's two professionals , almost all the players , ranging from a nurse to a shop assistant , have had to beg their employers for time off work to travel to England . |
| 22 | On the opposite pavement , three West Indian boys waggled their bodies in time to music coming from a nearby shop . |