Example sentences of "[noun pl] in their [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the record , we had caught five other boats , the smallest of which was 65ft long ( 20m ) , and tied underwater knots new even to gulet captains , who are notoriously hard to surprise , being Istanbul bus drivers in their spare time . |
| 2 | Besides these teaching visits to schools , the students were encouraged to make regular visits to their teaching practice schools in their own time . |
| 3 | Furthermore , while economic historians might assess in retrospect the effects of excise on levels of consumption , or by implication on the level of savings , customs duties in their own time were never seen solely from the point of view of the revenue but always as an important instrument of economic regulation . |
| 4 | There 's the ex-taxi driver , the chicken farmer and the house decorator who are building robots in their spare time for space projects . |
| 5 | The convenient beach and steady winds are ideal for less experienced windsurfers who like a lot of freedom to do things in their own time , or to try other sports . |
| 6 | In many cases they also have private businesses outside their mainstream employment ( many pilots run small businesses in their spare time ) . |
| 7 | But we all have our own ideas about the answers to these big questions and it ought to be left to the discretion of class teachers to allow their pupils to learn about life 's problems in their own time and at their own pace . |
| 8 | The objective of the Resource Book is to allow your adult learners to pursue their studies in their own time . |
| 9 | Nannies come from an ad in the back of The Lady , and are cordon bleu chefs in their spare time . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is not so surprising , since Tony Bowran learnt his craft from the practitioners of the finest photographic advertising images of the ‘ 70's , and like the painters of previous years that he so admires and draws great inspiration from , they too had apprentices who eventually became masters in their own time . |
| 11 | Reflectors like reaching decisions in their own time and on training courses they actually like to feel that they consider the situation and they do n't want feel sort of too rushed before they act . |
| 12 | The picaresque vitality of Richardson 's novel begins to wane early in the third volume ( a frequent fate of follow-ups ) and , as a theatre audience does not have the opportunity to plough through stodgy bits in their own time , we felt it made for better drama to kill Pamela ( in the novel she comes near to death ) before the dramatic conflict itself dies . |
| 13 | Piano lessons will be an optional extra taken by students in their own time and at their own expense . |
| 14 | They also complete a correspondence course , studying more than 100 workbooks in their own time to learn about things such as air conditioning , wiring , circuitries and the technical detail of production processes . |