Example sentences of "spend [adj] of the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll spend most of the time in bed . ’ |
| 2 | And , in the course of that hunt , I spent some of the time in … the place where Kokos comes from . ’ |
| 3 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 4 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 5 | He spent most of the time on the phone with his bookie . |
| 6 | We spent most of the time on the planet acid : the best place for us to be . |
| 7 | We spent most of the time on the Thames and Medway keeping observations on shipping . |
| 8 | And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again . |
| 9 | I had a vague impression of their father but he had spent most of the time with his head in his hands . |
| 10 | Evan spends much of the time with his eyes clamped shut , rocking gently and scraping notes out of his sore , croaking throat . |
| 11 | His parents will be able to spend much of the time in the ward with him . |
| 12 | Oh there 's a char , there 's a lovely char here , these lovely chars er actually spend most of the time in big cold lakes and they 're a , they 're a population in they normally respond in December from about December the second to the fifteenth and they 've probably been isolated since fourteen thousand years ago , with that every population has gone slightly different to , to the next one . |