Example sentences of "[verb] them [adj] time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 2 | RANGERS are to spend £500,000 on a new pitch in time for next season — assuming an abbreviated summer break allows them enough time to restore the worst playing surface Walter Smith can remember in his time at Ibrox , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 3 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea . |
| 5 | It might take them some time to find out about Laura , because the interesting part of the story took place some years earlier . |
| 6 | The Watch had ensured this by giving them ample time to escape via the back door , a neat compromise between caution and justice that benefited all parties . |
| 7 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 8 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 9 | It had left them some time to take stock of their lives . |
| 10 | Compact employers should encourage their employees who belong to unions to work in schools , and should allow them paid time to do so . |
| 11 | This gave them little time to develop influence where it mattered , but also meant that the Supreme Soviet had a body of deputies holding important jobs who were in a position to be influential ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 177–81 ) . |