Example sentences of "in their [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this continues to be unsuccessful then some travellers purposely ‘ miss ’ the first sleep in their new time zone to make sure that they are tired on the second night . |
| 2 | Nannies come from an ad in the back of The Lady , and are cordon bleu chefs in their spare time . |
| 3 | Just to the north of the factory Sakata laid out those playing fields , to keep its army of workers shackled to the corporation even in their spare time , until they were made redundant . |
| 4 | FORMERLY handed back to the Fenland Aviation Museum at RAF Marham on September 30 was Vampire T.11 XD434 ( see photo last month ) which had been painstakingly refurbished by members of the Victor Major Maintenance Unit ( VMMU ) who carried out the work in their spare time over a four month period after dismantling and transport from Fenland 's museum at Wisbech in May . |
| 5 | These have moved away from a concern with what young people did in their spare time and the transition from school to work towards looking at unemployment and state policies . |
| 6 | In many cases they also have private businesses outside their mainstream employment ( many pilots run small businesses in their spare time ) . |
| 7 | Toynbee Hall was designed as a residential settlement to be inhabited by young university graduates , who were to work among the poor in their spare time — offering art , music and education as well as material help and advice — with the aim of achieving mutual knowledge and respect between the classes . |
| 8 | A lot of people hanker after making a big scientific discovery in their spare time . |
| 9 | Some of the labourers , the male labourers , was Italian prisoners of war And the things that they used to make in their spare time , well some of them was very very clever , you know . |
| 10 | Most of the uniforms and CID from all over the county are offering to work in their spare time . ’ |
| 11 | So they took the money each month but refused to mix with other movie people in their spare time . |
| 12 | He replied that it was because in his youth there was little to do in their spare time except read and study . |
| 13 | Now she and Philip create designer jewellery in their spare time that they sell through galleries and museums in Britain and America . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dai and Meirion were two other company stalwarts who regularly pitched in with building work in their spare time , or else organized a shift system with the other printers , almost all of whom were happy to volunteer for manual labour . |
| 16 | And do the quoting in their spare time . |
| 17 | And it was in their spare time — they did n't get leave from the official rota . |
| 18 | Governors are largely untrained volunteers doing what they can in their spare time . |
| 19 | If the magazine ever publishes an article called , ‘ What Embalmers Get Up To In Their Spare Time ’ the following photograph would surely earn pride of place . |
| 20 | Well I mean it 's often things that people do in their spare time the , the record keeping is n't perfect and , and |
| 21 | There 's the ex-taxi driver , the chicken farmer and the house decorator who are building robots in their spare time for space projects . |
| 22 | Barbara Andrews of Rhyl said her son Mark and his friends were desperate for letters as there was so little for them to do in their spare time . |
| 23 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 24 | Most other staff keep equally active in their spare time , tempted by the climate , the wealth of local facilities and the ease of reaching desirable spots like the Alps , Lake Como and the Ligurian coast . |
| 25 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 26 | This directive encourages officers to research and study in their own time and lists suitable subjects , which include ‘ public administration , management studies , economics , law , criminology , social sciences , youth work , English language and literature and relevant modern languages ’ . |
| 27 | He reckons there are no shortages of possible uses — farmers can use it to do their accounts , women with child-care responsibilities can work in their own time on the word processors , publicity material for local craftsmen can be produced and so on . |
| 28 | 16.32 Teachers should encourage pupils to read independently in their own time , and to discuss with others their own favourite reading . |
| 29 | In their own time they were often called ‘ Condition of England Novels ’ , because they addressed themselves directly to the state of the nation . |
| 30 | 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 . |