Example sentences of "they [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They met some time in ‘ thirty-eight , I gather . |
| 2 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 3 | Unless we are more attentive , the Guatemalan refugees are about to be ignored again as they suffer this time not from the cold war , but the ‘ new world order ’ . |
| 4 | They devoted much time to the investigation and publication of wage rates ( A. L. Bowley was recruited for this purpose ) and investigation of labour conditions , including those in the sweated trades . |
| 5 | She wondered if you would mind very much if they came another time . |
| 6 | How far have they moved this time ? |
| 7 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 8 | Their detour to Fort George crossed what is how the main road from Nairn to Inverness , and they arrived some time in the late morning . |
| 9 | Clinton 's eyes and Bush 's tales The economic policies that Bill Clinton and George Bush have announced seem to rely too much on old measures that have failed the US economy in the past ; can they work this time ? |
| 10 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 11 | And they choose for themselves just how they fill that time . |
| 12 | When they returned some time during the morning , despite her lack of sleep , Sarella had never felt more wide awake . |
| 13 | Leonard also had a little room in the basement in which a piano was kept , where they spent much time together . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Stirling and Tait managed to make it north to the escarpment where they spent some time observing enemy traffic on the coastal road below . |
| 16 | They spent some time telling him what they thought of him . |
| 17 | They spent some time in the north . ’ |
| 18 | They spent more time on their feet than they did sitting . |
| 19 | The apes fed on a wide range of foods at all times of the year , but when fruit was scarce , they spent more time travelling and turned to less nutritious plant materials as well . |
| 20 | Mind they can get them so they lamb any time now ca n't they ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She wanted to explain that they needed more time but of course there was n't more time , not immediate time . |
| 23 | The candidates themselves may have to commit more time to the interview selection process ; the interviewers will have to ensure they leave enough time for discussion between themselves as well as making their own post-interview notes ; time will have to be set aside for the interviewers to meet and finalize their decision . |
| 24 | ‘ Becoming godparents to the babies they invested such time and love in would be the ideal answer . ’ |
| 25 | Formerly , we are told , people died before they had much time to develop these diseases . |
| 26 | With the exception of Hitchcock , whom they worshipped , they had little time for accepted and acclaimed directors , finding more value in the more commercial movies of , for instance , Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh . |
| 27 | But , after that , they had little time to spend together , little to say to one another . |
| 28 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They take some time to load programs and try the patience of young pupils . |