Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They spent some time telling him what they thought of him . |
| 2 | They spent some time driving around before the woman persuaded the kidnapper to let her take the child into a shop to get some baby food . |
| 3 | Stirling and Tait managed to make it north to the escarpment where they spent some time observing enemy traffic on the coastal road below . |
| 4 | THE simultaneous publication by national newspapers of a common code of practice and declaration of principles was postponed last night after the chairman and editors of Express Newspapers decided that they needed more time to examine the proposals . |
| 5 | Formerly , we are told , people died before they had much time to develop these diseases . |
| 6 | After school my father used to accompany him on his rounds in the car , and during these journeys they had ample time to exchange ideas without being overheard . |
| 7 | But , after that , they had little time to spend together , little to say to one another . |
| 8 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 9 | It was a Saturday , their father was sleeping in , as were their three elder brothers , so for once they had some time to play by themselves , which they did in the yard . |